Superstition

Exam, Work, Business, Money, Election, and Gambling Luck How people use lucky foods, objects, words, routines, dates, and rituals when facing exams, careers, business decisions, elections, financial hopes, and games of chance. 1 question → Half-Belief, Engi, Omajinai, and the Logic of Japanese Superstition How Japanese people may follow ideas about luck, engi, omajinai, and taboos as habit, play, caution, or consideration for others without fully believing in supernatural cause and effect. 1 question → Home, Moving, Building, Directions, and Household Luck How directions, room layouts, entrances, tatami arrangements, moving dates, construction customs, and household objects become associated with harmony, safety, prosperity, or misfortune. 2 questions → Illness, Pregnancy, Babies, and Childhood Taboos How beliefs surrounding illness, pregnancy, childbirth, babies, and childhood mix protection, family anxiety, traditional warnings, wordplay, and changing medical understanding. 1 question → Love, Marriage, Gifts, and Relationship Luck How places, gifts, objects, promises, rituals, and small taboos become connected to romantic compatibility, marriage, separation, and the hope of maintaining relationships. 1 question → Lucky and Unlucky Numbers, Dates, and Calendar Days How numbers such as four, seven, eight, and nine, along with rokuyo and other calendar days, influence gifts, room numbers, ceremonies, reservations, and important decisions. 2 questions → Regional Variation, Generational Change, and Respectful Responses How superstitions differ between regions, families, generations, workplaces, and social groups—and how outsiders can respond respectfully without treating them as universal facts. 1 question →