Praying for success in exams

Good luck to all. Let's hope that prayer was not their only preparation.

I just say It is a long lane that has no turning.

Now at its peak, the testing season is known for increasing students' interest in prayer.

Tenjin-sama, I used to call Tenjin. Tenjin was the nickname of Michizane Sugawara, who was a scholor ousted by then government and sent long long way to Southern Japan's inland sea area. The shrines enshrined Sugawara.

The test of "superstitious" they flunk already.

Good luck, peeps! Just make sure you hit the books and empower yourselves and don't leave it all up to the gods.

The Tenjin is cinsidered god of education, learning, study. That is why people with their children go to pray. Then parents make sure their children study to have good grade in school. They don;t pray for long life or tp be rich. Just help children study with help of Tenjin-sama. .

toshiko: My point was just that it is within YOUR power to improve yourself, not something you should pray to the gods for and wish for the best. I think it's kind of a fun superstition to go and do this kind of thing, especially since probably next to none of the people believe in the religion they are praying to, but I sometimes find it sad that so many people depend on some external locus of control when control of their life is up to them.

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into a simple gesture.

Better to study than anything else

@smithinjapan: Some people are superstitious and when I was a child i suspected they use their superstition as excuse not to be a top student when top was given to children, of some families, who are book worms. (Kyucho Class leader) .

I've seen this before--in one of the best-known yonkoma manga series ever done, Azumanga Daioh. I believe this type of practice was seen in the manga series Love Hina, but I haven't read the manga series yet, so....

Good luck to all! A prayer doesn't do any harm! :)