Konekoshinji

This practice also highlighted the role of women in the workforce. Young women, or jokō , were the primary laborers in the textile mills. Many came from rural backgrounds where Shinto practices were daily life. Konekoshinji provided a bridge for these women, allowing them to carry their rural spiritual practices into the urban, industrial setting. It transformed the alien, often dangerous factory environment into a sanctified space where they could still connect with the divine.

There is a known or experimental short manga called Koneko Shinjū (or similar) that appears in certain underground or horror/erotic guro circles. It may involve dark themes, pet loss, or metaphorical suicide. Not mainstream. Konekoshinji