Finding Your Fortune Tokyo Japan
by Joan Carroll
Title
Finding Your Fortune Tokyo Japan
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
A popular activity at temples and shrines in Japan is to draw a prediction (omikuji) that can be either bad or good. At Senso-ji temple in Asakusa (Tokyo Japan) first pay 100 yen then shake a box full of sticks before drawing out a stick. The stick you draw has a number on it. You then go to the drawer with the corresponding number to pull out a small paper with your fortune. If you draw a positive fortune, you keep the paper as a reminder of your visit. If, however, you draw a negative fortune, you fold up the paper and tie it to a tree or line where the bad luck ones are collected. That way you leave behind bad luck and take only good luck with you. The temple priest prays for the bad luck to go away. Senso-ji’s omikuji adhere to the traditional method whereby 30% of the sticks correspond to bad fortunes. It is said that some temples have reduced the percentage of bad fortunes in order to increase the immediate happiness of the people drawing their fortunes.
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