>>8967436Nekomata as symbolic figurine is a kami, so it has its own shrine to be worshiped on, it's not like in Catholic Christianity that everyone who believes in Jesus owns a cross and painting of him, from a local kami/deity one will mostly own at the most a talisman bought from the shrine or self-made with material around found around it if there aren't any priests selling things, which is rare, but could be true for some shrines found in the "wilderness" hidden in the forests.
So said, you just don't show others in what you believe, because there isn't a true or false kami in Shintoism and in modern Shintoism which is also more like 2/4 Japanese Buddhism, 1/4 Daoism and 1/4 traditional Japanese Shintoism. Every god, monster or whatever from any other religions and cults are seen just as kamis with more special powers than the common ones. The Christian God, is for example one of the most powerful, after the traditional ones like the obligatory Amaterasu, who is the embodiment of Japan.
The decorative version of the figurine, that you bought from some Chinese store stands just for the context of getting rich and having luck in work/money making, which fits right in the mindset of the PRC people, bad Capitalism + bad Communism abomination
They are awaiting that the spirit will come back to give the person fortune who bought a copy of the figurine. Anyway, it's just a funny decorative figurine, there is nothing magical in it.
