After graduate school, I spent months exploring Eastern and Southeastern Asian countries. While visiting numerous temples in Kyoto, I stumbled upon Omamori. These were a variety of amulets and good-luck charms, with each style offering luck or fortune related to fighting an illness, finding love, safety in pregnancy, success in starting a business, acing an exam or competition, and more. I bought a number of these myself as fairly inexpensive - but thoughtful - tokens to give friends and…
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