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https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASQ1R6RCXQ1RPPZB001.html?iref=sp_photo_gallery_above
 

According to this article there is a display of fortune telling from blades, at the Osafuné Sword Museum until the end of March.

Way back from Kamakura times, there were people who could read the flaws and scratches and imperfections in your blade for you, if you so wished.
There were at least three major schools, with those customers who believed and those people who rubbished the whole thing, much as the world is today. The oldest manuscript, and depictions of flaws which resembled various insects, etc., are on display apparently.

If I manage to get to this then I’ll update here.

 

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John A Stuart

John A Stuart

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There are so many ways of auguring from entrails to tea leaves that it boggles the mind. Any effect or series of effects in nature can with good imagination be codified with an index to paranatural causes. The old "as above, so below" cause and effect diatribe. Interesting self delusion. John

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