also: かめうら
tortoise-shell divination
Historical term for a form of divination practiced in ancient China and Japan, using heated tortoise shells and interpreting the cracks.
Tortoise-shell divination is a type of fortune-telling that was widely practiced in ancient China.
日本でも古墳時代に亀卜が行われていた形跡がある。
There is evidence that tortoise-shell divination was also practiced in Japan during the Kofun period.
Standard modern kanji form.
Native Japanese reading; less common than きぼく.
From Chinese 龜卜 (guībǔ), literally 'tortoise divination'. The native Japanese reading かめうら is a kun'yomi compound of 亀 (kame, 'tortoise') and 占い (uranai, 'divination').