辻つじ占うら

noun

fortune-telling slip; street fortune-teller

Historical term for a practice where a fortune-telling message was written on a slip of paper and left at a crossroads, or for the fortune-teller who interpreted it. Now mostly encountered in historical or literary contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、辻つじ占うらと呼よばれる辻つじに置おかれた紙し片へんで運うん勢せいを占うらなう風ふう習しゅうがあった。

  In the Edo period, there was a custom of fortune-telling using slips of paper called tsujiura left at crossroads.

• 古こ典てん落らく語ごに辻つじ占うらを題だい材ざいにした噺はなしがある。

  There is a classical rakugo story based on tsujiura.