Back in January, Eric and I went to Fukuoka to meet some friends. The next day we were wandering around looking for places to shop and instead found a shrine. As you do in Japan. Kushisa Shrine to be exact. We wandered around and took a bunch of pictures, which may be posted at a later date.
Then I noticed people inserting money and taking papers out of a little box. These papers are fortune slips or called omikuji, and for a small offering, you can take one and see what kind of luck you will have. Since this shrine is in a big touristy city, it not only had slips for native Japanese speakers, but also had sections for English, Korean, and Chinese fortune slips. I should also mention that this is entirely on the honor system. The sections containing the fortunes are not locked or latched in any way, but I can’t imagine anything being worse luck than stealing something from a shrine.
So Eric and I each inserted our 50 yen (about 50 cents) and drew a fortune.
Our results are as follows.
Mine:
Eric's:
If your luck is bad you can tie the fortune slip onto a nearby tree or metal wire on the shrine grounds to wish for your luck to be better. Ours were good though, so we kept them.
are you sure from these slips of good fortune that marriage is in your future?
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