oh great, it's yakudoshi
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2012.01.27
I'm now carrying a Japanese good luck symbol around, because I'm soon to turn 41, and in Japan that's very bad news.
It's called yakudoshi, and I don't even know where I can go for the purification ceremony. It doesn't help that my wife's a year away from her own yakudoshi.
Good thing I'm not superstitious, knock on wood!