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Eho/恵方
lucky direction
Eho is the direction where Toshitokujin 歳徳神 (Goddess of lucky direction)
stays through the year.,
She brings good fortune for the year.
| Jikkan十干 | Year/check the last figure of the year concerned |
Angle of direction | Eho Direction where Toshitokujin Goddess lives |
lucky temple of Nagora area which called "Owari Shi-Kannon" |
| 甲・己 | 4 or 9 |
75deg | east-north-east |
Ryusen-ji Kannon (Ryusen-ji temple) |
| 乙・庚 | 0 or 5 |
255deg | west-south-west |
Arako-Kannon (Kannon-ji temple) |
| 丙・辛・戊・癸 | 1 or 6, or, 3 or 8 |
165deg | south-south-east |
Kasadera-kannon (Ryufuku-ji temple) |
| 丁・壬 | 2 or 7 |
345deg | north-north-west |
Jimoku-ji Kannon (Jimokuji temple) |
It taks the same sycle in every 5 years.
| 2008 | south-south-east | 2013 | south-south-east | 2018 | south-south-east | 2023 | south-south-east | 2028 | south-south-east |
| 2009 | east-north-east | 2014 | east-north-east | 2019 | east-north-east | 2024 | east-north-east | 2029 | east-north-east |
| 2010 | west-south-west | 2015 | west-south-west | 2020 | west-south-west | 2025 | west-south-west | 2030 | west-south-west |
| 2011 | south-south-east | 2016 | south-south-east | 2021 | south-south-east |
2026 | south-south-east | 2031 | south-south-east |
| 2012 | north-north-west | 2017 | north-north-west | 2022 | north-north-west | 2027 | north-north-west | 2032 | north-north-west |
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You will find a word of "katatagae" lots when you read Genji-Monogatari", the oldest novel in Japan written by Murasaki Shikibu who lived in the Heian period (794-1192). "Katatagae" means " change the direction" Now we Japanese don't care about directions at all, but in old time, we had always thought about them. When we wanted to visit bad direction, first we forced to the different direction then visited the destination. |
