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Updated: May 6, 2025

Again he shakes the box; a second bamboo slip issues from the slit. 'Dai kitsu! great good-fortune. The number is ninety-and-nine. Once more the box is shaken; once more the oracular bamboo protrudes. 'Kyo! laughs Akira. 'Evil will befall us. The number is sixty-and- four.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series