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Omikuji lot 21 of 100

A Second Sun Ahead

吉 Kichi, Good fortune

洗出經年否

光華得再清

所求終吉利

重日照前程

Washed clean of years of obstruction,

the brightness is clear once more.

What is sought ends well.

A second sun lights the road ahead.

What this lot says

Something blocked for years has been rinsed away, and a shine returns to it. The third line states plainly that the thing sought comes out well. Then a doubled sun stands over the way forward.

On the page as the book prints it, the grade is Kichi, Good fortune. Washing and light carry the whole verse, and the two suns at the end make the brightness hard to miss.

For someone reading this now, the verse might call up the relief after a long logjam clears. What became visible in your own affairs once the blockage was gone?

A lot is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.

The printed text

No differences from the 1684 printing are recorded for this lot.

Credits

The verse and grade were read from the two scanned printings named here. The title, translation and reading are our own and modern.

Our own English. The kana commentary printed under each verse in the old books was not read.