{"product_id":"omamori","title":"Omamori","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBrocade omamori charm pouch with a knotted cord, in twelve designs for twelve wishes\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small brocade pouch with a wish woven on it. This is the omamori, the amulet sold at every shrine and temple in Japan, a pouch in a woven brocade with a knotted cord at the top and the wish in gold characters down the front: health, luck, study, recovery, safety, success, each design a different wish and a different cloth, in twelve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the smallest thing in the shop and one of the most given, and it hangs from a bag, a phone, a car mirror or a bedpost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is the Japanese one, and it means a protector: the pouch is sealed, and inside it is a folded paper or a slip of wood with a prayer, and the rule is that you never open it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pouch is a brocade woven with a pattern and the characters in gold thread, folded and sewn into the rounded shrine shape, with a cord in a matching colour knotted through the top into a loop with a decorative knot. It is sealed at the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarry it on a bag, a key ring, a phone or a rear-view mirror, which is where the Japanese carry theirs, or hang it by a bed or a desk. It is given at a new year, an exam, a birth, an illness or a journey, and the design is chosen for the wish. After a year the tradition is to return it to a shrine for a new one; outside Japan, it is kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve designs are twelve wishes, and the characters name them: the purple and the red carry the wish for health, the white with gold the wish for luck and success, the cream with the crest the wish for recovery from illness, the pale blue a wish for the young. The cord and the knot are the same shape on all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe knot is the detail: a decorative knot in the cord at the top of the pouch, the same on every shrine amulet in Japan, which closes the pouch and makes the loop. The characters are woven, not printed, and they glint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it is a small bright pouch on a cord. From close the pouch shows its brocade, the characters their gold, and the knot its turns. It is the charm for a person who needs one, or knows someone who does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep it dry; it is not washed. If the brocade frays at a corner, that is a year well carried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne size, about the size of a matchbox, on a cord loop the length of a finger. Twelve designs; the option number picks the design and the wish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"01","offer_id":59207688487260,"sku":"200001033:504#01","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"02","offer_id":59207688520028,"sku":"200001033:865#02","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"03","offer_id":59207688552796,"sku":"200001033:361180#03","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"04","offer_id":59207688585564,"sku":"200001033:200006253#04","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"05","offer_id":59207688618332,"sku":"200001033:361181#05","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"06","offer_id":59207688651100,"sku":"200001033:361187#06","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"07","offer_id":59207688683868,"sku":"200001033:361188#07","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"08","offer_id":59207688716636,"sku":"200001033:200003757#08","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"09","offer_id":59207688749404,"sku":"200001033:200003758#09","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10","offer_id":59207688782172,"sku":"200001033:200003759#10","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11","offer_id":59207688814940,"sku":"200001033:200003760#11","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12","offer_id":59207688847708,"sku":"200001033:200003761#12","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/omamori-1.jpg?v=1790586768","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/omamori","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}