Fuji (planchette writing)
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Fuji, often referred to as "planchette writing" or "spirit writing," is a religious practice in Chinese religions where messages from deities, ancestors, or spirits, are conveyed through a wooden or m
Lithography called Feiluan xin yu in the magazine Dianshizhai Pictorial (1884–1898). It represents the technique of fuji during the Qing dynasty, also called "descending of the phoenix" (feiluan), with the pencil being held by two mediums over a sand tray, in which characters allegedly directed by the spirits (in the cloud above) are written.
A model of fuji practitioners in front of a fuji altar
Fuji pen and table at Lanyang Museum, in Yilan County, Taiwan.
Planchette
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A planchette, from the French for "little plank", is a small, usually heart-shaped flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled casters and a pencil-holding aperture pointing downwards, used to facili
Fuji (planchette writing)
…or metal stylus guided by a medium or a group of participants. Fuji is a form of automatic writing that often uses a suspended sieve or tray called a planchette, which is filled with sand or incense ash where characters are written using a pen or stylus. The practice is documented as early as the Song dynasty…
Early British Planchette, 1850s–60s.
1891 Kennard Novelty Co. Ouija Board
"Mystic Hand" planchette