Rhode Island”“based Seth S. Horowitz, author of *The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind*, is currently taking a busman’s holiday in Japan, recording sounds as he travels. He’s posted the first of these, taken at the Senso-ji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo.
Writes Horowitz of the source event:
>A 100 yen coin is deposited, a metal box full of joss sticks is shaken until a numbered stick falls out. The fortunee then opens a wooden drawer corresponding to that number to obtain their fortune.
https://soundcloud.com/universalsense/fortune-telling-omikuji-at-the
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/universalsense](https://soundcloud.com/universalsense/fortune-telling-omikuji-at-the). More on Horowitz at [neuropop.com](http://neuropop.com/who_we_are.asp). Image found via [wikipedia.org](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hozomon_and_pagoda,_Sensoji_Temple,_Asakusa,_Tokyo.jpg).