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  2. Fortune cookie - Wikipedia

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    A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation and/or a list of lucky numbers used by some as lottery numbers.

  3. Japanese superstitions - Wikipedia

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    There are six unlucky numbers in Japanese. Traditionally, 4 is unlucky because it is sometimes pronounced shi, which is the word for death. [5] Sometimes levels or rooms with 4 do not exist in hospitals or hotels. [8] Particularly in the maternity section of a hospital, the room number 43 is avoided because it can literally mean "stillbirth ...

  4. Tajimamori - Wikipedia

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    Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  5. Candy Canes Are Everywhere on Christmas—But Why Is That? - AOL

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    Though these early candy canes weren't striped but rather all white sticks, the choirmaster did bend the candy into the shape of a shepherd's staff as a nod to the religious story told.

  6. O-mikuji - Wikipedia

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    Ryōgen (left), 18th chief abbot (zasu) of Enryaku-ji. The omikuji sequence historically commonly used in Japanese Buddhist temples, consisting of one hundred prophetic five-character quatrains, is traditionally attributed to the Heian period Tendai monk Ryōgen (912–985), posthumously known as Jie Daishi (慈恵大師) or more popularly, Ganzan Daishi (元三大師), and is thus called ...

  7. Fukubukuro - Wikipedia

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    Fukubukuro on sale outside a store on Takeshita Street Tokyo, in 2006. Fukubukuro (Japanese: 福袋, pronounced [ɸɯ̥kɯbɯꜜkɯɾo]; "lucky bag") is a Japanese New Year custom in which merchants make grab bags filled with unknown random contents and sell them for a substantial discount, usually 50% or more off the list price of the items contained within.

  8. Setsubun - Wikipedia

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    Setsubun has its origins in tsuina (), a Chinese custom introduced to Japan in the 8th century. [2] It was quite different from the Setsubun known today. According to the Japanese history book Shoku Nihongi, tsuina was first held in Japan in 706, and it was an event to ward off evil spirits held at the court on the last day of the year according to the lunar-solar calendar.

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