On each Rooster day of November, the Ōtori shrines of Tokyo and the Kantō hold a night market selling kumade — bamboo rakes decorated with coins, rice bales, treasure ships and lucky cats, for raking in prosperity. A purchase is sealed with a rhythmic hand-clapping by the stallholders, and buyers are expected to trade up to a larger rake each year.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
The recurrence rule is unusual and is the reason this entry is here. The Rooster day recurs every twelve days in the sexagenary cycle, so November contains either two or three of them depending on the year. A year with three — a san-no-tori year — is traditionally said to bring fires.
Like Hatsu-uma in February, this is a rule our six timing classes cannot generate, only record.
PlanningTwo or three times in November, twelve days apart, on the sexagenary Rooster days — not a fixed date.
Dates
computed from the rule
Computed from the recurrence rule we record for this entry, not copied from a listing. A date marked ~ comes from a calendar conversion and the observance may fall a day or two either side.