The Omikuji are little paper folded into a stripe and tied up to wires or little structures in Temples in Japan. The paper have an oracle written on it telling the future or giving advice on different subjects like love, work, study, family. Visiting a Jinja, especially on New Year's day, people ask for advice or fortune telling, after giving a small donation, people take a wooden box and after shaking it they extract from a little hole a numbered wooden stick and the Omikuji corresponding to that number is given by an attendant. After reading it, the paper is folded into a stripe and tied to a structure or a tree in the temple ground, in this temple, Nogijinja in Akasaka, Tokyo was shaped like a ball, interesting effect.
Ema are wooden votive tablets found in all temples, used as lucky charms or to express gratitude to the God. There are pictures of animals or the people write on them. Below there are Omikuji, oracles written on paper. People give an offert and have this oracle giving advice on various matters, like exams, work, love .... After reading it people tide them up to a brunch or in organized space in the jinja courtyard.
