If lucky cat figurines are to be believed, then the Gotoku-ji Temple in in Setagaya, Tokyo should be the luckiest place in the world, as it has over thousands of these little statues left behind by worshippers! Travel bloggers Michel Powell and Jurgen Horn of travel blog ‘For 91 Days’ recently featured the shrine that is home to these ‘Maneki Neko’, or translated as ‘lucky cat’, ‘fortune cat’, or ’beckoning cat’.
Story goes is that a lord travelling to Edo saw a cat beckoning him to go inside the Gotoku-ji temple. Just as he followed the feline inside, a thunderstorm appeared and a bolt of lightning struck where he had previously been standing. Amazed by the good luck this cat brought, the lord made Gotoku-ji his family temple and donated a lot of money to it. Since then, worshippers have been placing these lucky cat statues at the temple for good luck.
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