Year of the . . .
. . . computer mouse?
As I’ve mentioned before, most temples and shrines sell Ema. These are little placards on which you can write a wish or a prayer and the monks at the temple will pray over them for you. At the shrine I mentioned yesterday they had these Ema for sale. They also had this huge sign displaying the Ema.
It is the year of the rat and so they had a rat prominently featured on the Ema. But I am really unclear as to why they have a computer mouse just below it. It isn’t the year of the mouse, after all.