A divination done with three bamboo sticks and a pot lid, with the hands resting on top; the lid tilts, and the tilts are the answers. The name is from the tilting — kokkuri, a nod — and the characters for fox, dog and tanuki were fitted to those syllables afterwards. The earliest sustained Japanese account of it, written in the 1890s, identifies it flatly with Western table-turning and traces it to an American sailing vessel wrecked near Shimoda around 1884. The same account records what people asked it: whether a wife had a lover, when a sick man would die, when a girl would marry.