Cast & Chart

Omikuji lot 33 of 100

Fragrance Back in the Wood

吉 Kichi, Good fortune

枯木逢春艶

芳菲再發林

雲閒方見月

前遇貴人欽

A dead tree meets spring and turns lovely.

Fragrance opens again through the wood.

Only in a gap in the clouds is the moon seen.

Ahead, a person of standing is met and shows regard.

What this lot says

Spring makes a withered tree beautiful, and scent spreads through a whole forest. The moon shows itself where the clouds part. Farther along, someone of high position offers respect.

Good fortune, Kichi, is the grade this book prints. One tree becomes a wood, a gap becomes a view of the moon, and the grade follows that widening.

In our own day, this could describe a small revival that changes the air around it. What has one recovered thing made possible in the space near it?

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.