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Omikuji lot 35 of 100

Foreign Monk Leading Home

吉 Kichi, Good fortune

財鹿須乘箭

胡僧引路歸

遇道同仙籍

光華映晩暉

The deer of wealth must ride the arrow.

A foreign monk leads the way home.

Meeting the Way, one joins the roll of immortals.

Brightness shines in the evening glow.

What this lot says

A deer that stands for wealth is linked with an arrow. A monk from abroad then guides someone back home. An encounter with the Way places that person among the immortals, and the verse ends in late light.

The hunt gives way to evening calm, and the book keeps Kichi, Good fortune, as its printed grade across that change. Printings differ on one word, with another reading shoot in place of wealth, which would make the first line about shooting the deer.

Read now, the verse suggests help from a stranger whose background is nothing like your own. Which guide in your past came from somewhere you would not have looked?

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.

Marginal note as printed: 百籖財作射

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.