O-mikuji
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Omikuji are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are usually received by making a small offering and randomly choos
An example of an omikuji of the Ganzan Daishi Hyakusen variant. On this sheet is written the 91st (第九十一) of 100 oracular quatrains, ranked "(regular) fortune" (吉, kichi)
Ryōgen (left), 18th chief abbot (zasu) of Enryaku-ji
Omikuji at Hokkaido Shrine Tongu in Sapporo
Young people in Osaka comparing omikuji on New Year's Eve
Kau chim
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Kau chim, kau cim, chien tung, "lottery poetry" and Chinese fortune sticks are names for a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which a person poses questions and interprets answers fr
O-mikuji
…him by the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Kannon). Historically, however, the Japanese omikuji system is thought to have been modeled after the Chinese kau chim, a similar form of divination involving a tube full of bamboo sticks and a sequence of written or printed oracles. A wooden container containing oracular…
Chien Tung sticks, cylindrical container with 18 inscribed sticks, China, 1800–1920
The lottery and lottery poems in a Hong-Kong temple.
Practicing kau chim at Wong Tai Sin Temple, Hong Kong
Seam Si at a temple in Thailand