Marina Yesipenko

Once upon a time, long ago, Japanese emperors had a special person among their entourage whom they called Jisai, which meant sacrificial scapegoat. Jisai served the emperor as a kind of lightning rod. All the troubles and misfortunes that threatened his master were supposed to fall on his head. Nowadays, a businessman decides to get his own domestic Jisai to save him from trouble and misfortune. It turns out to be an unemployed intellectual.

"Jisai" translates from ancient Japanese as "sacrificial scapegoat." Wise Japanese emperors, knowing that their well-being and health belonged not only to themselves but to the entire nation, kept a special person with them who took upon himself all the troubles and misfortunes that threatened his master. This self-sacrificing person bore the proud nickname of Jisai, and it was he who bore all the blows that fate generously bestowed upon the emperor. A well-read Russian businessman, having learned about this ancient tradition, also decided to create a similar "lightning rod" for himself in order to protect himself from all kinds of misfortunes. His Dzisay is an unemployed, "former intellectual," doomed to receive blows and beatings instead of his enterprising master...