Calculation - Sanoki

Japanese: 算置 - さんおき

A fortune teller of the lower class who was active among the general public in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. They are also called Urayasan, Uraoki, Mitooshi, etc. They were fortune tellers of the same type as Shomoji and Hakase, disguised as priests or mountain ascetics, and went out on the streets chanting "Urayasan" to gain customers, and performed fortune telling based on Onmyodo using counting sticks. In "Thirty-two Artisans' Poetry Contest," in which they are confronted with a komuso (a Buddhist monk), they write, "The flowers that grow together with the calculation sticks are five-shaped, unable to withstand the wind," and "What a bitter world for the calculation staff who live in a temporary hut the size of a palanquin," and in the Noh and Kyogen play "Igui," a scene in which a sanoki is telling fortunes is described.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中世･近世に民間で活躍した下層の占師。うらやさん，占置（うらおき），見通（みとおし）などともいう。声聞師（しようもじ），博士（はかせ）などと同類の占師で，法師または山伏の姿をし，街頭に出て〈うらやさん〉などと唱えながら顧客を得，算木を用いて陰陽道系の占いを行った。《三十二番職人歌合》には虚無僧（こむそう）と対されて〈置く算の相生したる花の時風をばいれぬ五形なりけり〉〈輿（こし）ほどの仮屋のうちに身をおける算所の者の恨めしの世や〉の歌が収められ，能狂言《居杭（いぐい）》に算置が占うさまが記されている。

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