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Read about Today’s Lucky Days
About this reading: Days like Tensha-bi, Ichiryu-manbai-bi, the Day of the Tiger, and the Day of the Snake come from the traditional Japanese calendar's system of auspicious-day notations. Tensha-bi is considered the luckiest day on the calendar; Ichiryu-manbai-bi ("one grain becomes ten thousand") is said to favor starting new things, and a day where the two overlap is considered especially fortunate. The Day of the Tiger and the Day of the Snake, based on the zodiac cycle, are often associated with money and financial luck.
Choosing a good day to start something makes no promise about the outcome; it's sometimes described instead as a piece of wisdom for placing the moment of decision just outside yourself. As we see it here, a lucky day works less as a guarantee and more as a small permission slip — today, it's fine to begin — and what actually shapes the outcome is less the date itself than whether that nudge got you moving.
The Lucky Day Calendar below also layers in unlucky days: Butsumetsu, Shakkou, Fujoju-bi (a day when nothing is said to come to fruition) and Sanrinbo (a day said to be unlucky for building). Good days show crows, bad days show scary faces. Lucky and unlucky notes often fall on the same day, and the calendar has long been read with that cancelling-out in mind. For members, days whose branch forms a "six-combination" with the branch of their birth day are shown as personal lucky days, and days that "clash" with it as caution days. The scoring and this personal reading are this site's own.
Lore column: The Black Dot Behind the Lucky Days: Jushi-nichi, the Worst Day on the Calendar
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Leaf through an old Japanese almanac looking for lucky days like Tensha-bi or Ichiryu-manbai-bi, and the same pages list their exact opposites. The most notorious is Jushi-nichi, the "day of receiving death." Old calendars marked it not with words but with a black dot, which is why it was also called kurobi, the "black day." It was ranked as the very worst of the calendar's ill-omened days, followed by Jusshi-nichi and by Fujoju-bi, a day on which nothing begun was said to bear fruit.
Lucky and unlucky days were never printed in separate books; they sat side by side on the same sheet. People avoided the days on which they must not act with the same care they used to choose good ones. With a name that reads literally as "receiving death," Jushi-nichi was likely feared all the more for how it looked on the page.
As we see it here, that black dot spoke louder than any text. This is speculation, but even people who could barely read would have spotted a lone black mark in the almanac at a glance. The fear registered before any explanation did: "that day is black." Perhaps that is exactly why Jushi-nichi survived so long. Behind the joy of finding a lucky day, there was always a small dread of stepping on a black one by mistake.
In-depth article:We have an in-depth article covering this reading's origins, how to interpret it, and our own analysis.
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Check whether today falls on a traditional lucky day, such as Tensha-bi, Ichiryu-manbai-bi, the Day of the Tiger, or the Day of the Snake. This doesn't use your birth date.
Lucky Day Calendar
This calendar layers traditional lucky days (Tensha-bi, Ichiryu-manbai-bi, the Days of the Tiger and Snake, Taian) against unlucky ones (Butsumetsu, Shakkou, Fujoju-bi, Sanrinbo) for a whole month. The better the day, the more crows appear (up to three); the worse the day, the more scary faces (up to three). Tap a date to see what falls on it.
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