The Wish Tree - a new/old Tradition
from this website |
Omikuji: random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines in Japan. They are often tied to a tree....
Literally “sacred lottery”, these are usually received by making a small offering (generally a five-yen coin as it is considered good luck) and by pulling one out randomly from a box that one shakes, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. It is not always that good....
The omikuji falls out of a small hole, scrolled up. (now they also come form a coin-slot machines). Then you tie it to a tree, pole, or similar.....
People often do this at New Year's...
And then Yoko Ono took this tradition and made it into her idea of a Wish Tree - She supplies slips of paper where guests write their wishes and tie them to a branch of a branch. Yoko Ono collects all of the wishes when the “piece is done” in an area.
a Yoko Ono wish tree |
Currently well over one million wishes have been tied to her trees! All of the wishes are being stored in the Imagine Peace Tower that Yoko constructed in Iceland as a tribute to John Lennon’s wish for world peace.
Here is one of her trees at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC below:
Ono has instructions on her Imagine Peace Tower website so you can create your own wish tree.
What a great community endeavor!!! A new/old tradition!
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