Fortune Telling

Sensoji temple has some fortune telling booths which contain many small drawers and a metal canister. You shake the canister, which is filled with sticks, until one of the sticks falls out of a small hole. This stick has a few characters on it, and using these you find the corresponding drawer containing a piece of paper with your fortune on it. It's kind of self serve fortune telling.


Bek shook number 54, bad fortune.


"Your body is one but with two different kind mind, so everything goes out of order. Just like lunar eclipse make the sky all dark all will be at dark. Though fortune approaches to you, but you can't get it. Just like a fish can't meet water, there may be so many possibility to be a bad case for you.

The request will not be granted. The patient will be unhappy. The lost article will not be found. The person you wait for will not come. Let's stop build a new house and removal. Any kind of marriage, to start a trip, new employment are all bad." (sic)


Those Buddhists don't mess around. Now for my fortune.


Number 1, best fortune.


"The tower of cloisonne with seven treasures is standing in a stately manner upon the high summit. People look at it and praise it. Your fortune is just like this tower. When you look at it more carefully, your fortune will be more excellent.

Your wishes will be realised. A sick person will recover. The person you are waiting for will come soon. The lost article will be found but it will take a little while. Building a new house, moving marriage, taking a trip, employment are all good. Be careful for everything that you want to do. If you are careless, you will get hurt." (sic)


Nothing more need be said.