File:Fortune Teller on the street of Japan (1914 by Elstner Hilton).jpg

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My spouse's uncle Elstner Hilton took this photo in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

I do not know whether the man is a fortune teller, but the image suggests it. If anyone would like to offer a different interpretation, I would welcome it.
Flickr Tags: fortune teller woman consulting fortune teller Old Japan vintage photo of Japan Japan 1914 - 1918 prewar japan 日本 昔の日本 大正時代 周易占断所 日月堂.

Annotation from Wikimedia Commons: The sign behind says, transliterated, "I Ching Fortune-telling Judgement Place". So this is an image of fortune-telling, and the teller is holding a bundle of yarrow stalks.
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Author A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by A.Davey at https://flickr.com/photos/40595948@N00/5078246097. It was reviewed on 16 July 2017 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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This is Japanese fortune teller using the Zhou (I Ching) it says Zhou Yi on the sign and there is an image of the first hexagram of the book.

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