Cast & Chart

Omikuji lot 22 of 100

Bamboo Green After Rain

吉 Kichi, Good fortune

漸漸濃雲散

看看月再明

逢春華草秀

雨過竹重青

Little by little the thick clouds scatter.

Look, look: the moon is bright again.

Meeting spring, flowers and grass flourish.

The rain gone by, the bamboo is green once more.

What this lot says

Heavy cloud thins slowly while someone watches the moon return. Spring arrives on the ground, with blossoms and grass thriving. A shower passes and leaves the bamboo freshly green.

Every line shows weather improving at its own pace. The grade printed in the book, Kichi, Good fortune, is a quiet match for that.

On a modern reading, this is a scene of recovery that cannot be hurried and can only be watched. Where are you checking the sky more often than the clouds can move?

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

Where the 1684 printing differs

  • Line 3, character 4: 1684 printing has 菓.

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.