亀き卜ぼく

noun

tortoise-shell divination

Historical term for a form of divination practiced in ancient China and Japan, using heated tortoise shells and interpreting the cracks.

• 亀き卜ぼくは古こ代だい中ちゅう国ごくで盛さかんに行おこなわれた占うらないの一いっ種しゅだ。

  Tortoise-shell divination is a type of fortune-telling that was widely practiced in ancient China.

• 日本にほんでも古こ墳ふん時じ代だいに亀き卜ぼくが行おこなわれていた形けい跡せきがある。

  There is evidence that tortoise-shell divination was also practiced in Japan during the Kofun period.