RKS Literature: Should One Be Concerned with Red Tongue Days Marked on the Calendar? (Yoshida Kenkō)

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“The Ying Yang masters do not concern themselves with those days of the calendar marked ‘Red Tongue Days’. Nor did people of old treat the day as unpropitious. It seems someone more recently has declared it unlucky, and now everyone has begun to avoid it, believing that things undertaken on this day will miscarry. This idea-that whatever is said or done on this day will fail, that objects gained on the day will be lost and plans made will go awry-is ridiculous. If you count the number of failures that happen on an auspicious day, there you will find there are just as many. It is people that create good fortune and misfortune, not the calendar. “

Yoshida Kenkō, “A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees”, 1329-1331?

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