The Hartys knew the answer! (Here's a secret- the Hartys have a cousin who is stationed in Japan. There's been a lot of e-mailing going back and forth lately!) Here's a link that tells more about Omikuji

This photo shows Omikuji , which is a paper with a fortune written on it. When you go to a temple or a shrine in Japan, there is a box where you make a small donation and you pick out your fortune at random. (I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I read that there is a long thin box with wooden sticks and a hole in the top. You shake the box and one stick falls out. The stick has a number that corresponds to a fortune. I'll find out for sure when I visit my first shrine!) If the fortune is good, you keep the paper. If it's a bad fortune, you fold up the paper and tie it to the branch of a tree that is at the temple. Then the bad fortune won't come your way. You can see the temple in the background. This temple is in Kyoto.

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