boku (divining, fortune-telling)
sen (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

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❖ (augury, fortune-telling, divination)
❖ Also called senboku, uranai, ura

sen (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)
boku (divining, fortune-telling)
senboku (divination; fortunetelling; soothsaying)

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uranai (fortune-telling; divination)

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urana.i (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

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(fortune-telling; divination)

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(fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

futo (plump, thick, big around)
mani | sen (archaism: fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)
mani | chô (archaism: portent, sign, omen)

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❖ Scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); spatulamancy; armomancy

kei (compete with, bout, contest, race)
ba (horse)

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❖ Horse racing as a form of harvest divination

ki (tortoise, turtle)
boku (divining, fortune-telling)

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❖ Heating the shell of a tortoise and interpreting the resulting cracks
❖ Also called kame-ura

kame (tortoise, turtle)
ura (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

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kame (turtle, tortoise — outdated knaji)
ura (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

kayu (rice-gruel)
ura (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

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❖ Generally performed on January 15
❖ The objective is to divine the weather, harvest, or other aspects of the year to come
❖ Also called mi-kayu'ura

mi (honorable)
kayu (rice-gruel)
ura (fortune-telling, divining, forecasting)

mato (bull's eye, mark, target)
i (shoot, archery)

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❖ Archery divination
❖ Done within a shrine at the new year

o (honorable)
mato (bull's eye, mark, target)
shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
ji (matter, business)
shinji (shintô ritual)

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❖ Archery divination ritual
❖ Done by firing an arrow, frequently at the end of winter

o (honorable)
mi | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
kuji (lottery, raffle)

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❖ A paper lot on which a personal fortune is written
❖ Procedure for obtaining an omikuji at a shrine

1. Pick up the small rounded container filled with bamboo sticks
2. Think of the question you want an answer to
3. Give it a shake, and a long stick will pop out of a small hole at the top
4. The stick will have a number, which corresponds to a fortune
5. Based on your number you get a slip/roll of paper on which is written your fortune
6. If you draw a good fortune, keep it; if it's bad, you can leave it at the shrine

❖ Click here for a simulation of the experience
❖ Also called mikuji

mi kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
kuji (lottery, raffle)

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mi (honorable)
kuji (lottery, raffle)

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mi (honorable)
kuji (lottery, lot, raffle)

ya | na (current, flow)
busa | kabura (whistling arrowhead)
me (horse)

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❖ Archery divination
❖ Done as a contest on horseback