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Updated: May 15, 2025
For, holding the axe Groan-Maker, he is unconquerable, and to fight with him is sure death. Fifty-and-one have tried in all, and before the hut of Jikiza there are piled fifty-and-one white skulls. And know this, the axe must be won in fight; if it is stolen or found, it has no virtue nay, it brings shame and death to him who holds it."
This, as translated by Akira, is the substance of the text of the paper numbered fifty-and-one: 'He who draweth forth this mikuji, let him live according to the heavenly law and worship Kwannon. If his trouble be a sickness, it shall pass from him. If he have lost aught, it shall be found. If he have a suit at law, he shall gain.
There is only a small hole in one end of it; no appearance of a lid of any sort. 'Now, says Akira, 'if you wish to pay two sen, we shall learn our future lot according to the will of the gods. I pay the two sen, and Akira shakes the box. Out comes a narrow slip of bamboo, with Chinese characters written thereon. 'Kitsu! cries Akira. 'Good-fortune. The number is fifty-and-one.
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