Lord Abbot Enomoto

Lord Abbot Enomoto is the villain in David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

He was the abbot of an esoteric shinto order located at a monastery in the Kirishima Mountains at Mount Shiranui. His order operated a harem of women to maintain a supply of babies who were distilled by a psycho-decanter into what the order called tamashi-abura or Oil of Souls. The monks were able to postpone death by consuming this substance.

In Mitchell's 2020 novel, Utopia Avenue, it is revealed that upon his death, Abbot Enomoto, a practitioner of psychosoterica, was able to hide his soul within Jacob de Zoet's mind. Enomoto spent hundreds of years biding his time and, once his strength was collected, he sought vengeance against Jasper de Zoet, a descendent of Jacob de Zoet. Jasper came to know this evil presence as "Knock Knock," since he used that sound to torture the young man.