In Japan, generally, even numbers are not favored, because they can be divided, signifying parting and breaking. Many people imagine 1,3,5,7 as good numbers.
But nine is not considered to be a lucky number. It's because nine is "ku" in Japanese which means suffering and agony.
1/1(January 1st) is New Year's Day, 3/3 is Dolls Festival (Girls Day), 5/5 is Children's Day (Boys Day), 7/7 is Star Festival. They are all special days and people celebrate these days (especially family with small kids) 9/9 is not so popular now, but in ancient times, September 9th was a special day called "Chrysanthemum Day" to wish for longevity. They say chrysanthemum flowers were displayed and people drank chrysanthemum-floating rice wine.
By the way, my favorite number is "3", because I was born on March 3rd.
What is your lucky number?
My lucky number is, if I'm not mistaken, 15,352.
ReplyDeleteI'm not good at math, so I don't think any numbers are lucky! I do love the cheery chrysanthemum, though. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't have a particular lucky number, but I have always preferred even numbers to odd. Probably because when we learned to count by 2's we started with Ecen numbers first -- 2, 4, 6, etc.
ReplyDeleteMr. Tsuyama, Jane, Ila, thank you for giving me your answers. It's fun to find the diversity.
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