The Laughing Cat was a shop in Zakyo Toshi which sold clothing, silks, footware, and the like. When it had a severe run of bad luck the owners renamed their business the Fat Rat, in honor of the servants of Daikoku and the Scorpion Clan's annexation of Zakyo Toshi. These events had been planned sabotage, an attempt by the Governor Yogo Maiku to purchase the business once the owner became sufficiently desperate, in order to gain a seat in the Merchant Council.