O-mikuji
![Young people in Osaka comparing o-mikuji on New Year's Eve](/Images/godic/202501/31/Omikuji-kurabe1120.jpg")
![Tying o-mikuji at Kasuga Shrine in Nara](/Images/godic/202501/31/KasugaTaisha21120.jpg")
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O-mikuji(御御籤, 御神籤, or おみくじo-mikuji) are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are usually received by making a small offering (generally a five-yen coin as it is considered good luck) and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. As of 2011 coin-slot machines sometimes dispense o-mikuji.