FM-PMS

[akk]

current chapter word count: 1080
scene actively written: 2 - Ameru
scene status: planned / location fixed / no fluent text yet
research of the day: All Nippon Airlines flight schedule Osaka-Itami - Okinawa-Naha, Osaka-Itami South Terminal, domestic flights in Japan
character who is supposed to be nicely introspective and to look good in dark grey slacks: Ameru (who else?)
character who is suspiciously absent from the introspection yet: son no. 2
items considered: delayed flight, metal-framed glasses, ofuda made from decorated letter paper (hibiscus), secret snapshots of son(s)

Comments

[akk]

No, I found nothing about special paper being required or not. However, I have the Sumeragi being a very formal clan, concerned a lot with style and decorum; so it makes sense that for them it's close to blasphemy to use anything but pure, handmake, sun-bleached (because of Amaterasu) paper for their spiritual workings. Somebody from their clan, scribbling an ofuda on a girly letter paper certainly is... ;)

For contrast: Seishiro uses almost anything he can gets his hands on when he needs an ofuda, including a grocery receipt (which is why he and Subaru still argue - off-stage - about the price for that cucumber).