[日本語がまだありません。書く暇が出来たら書きます。^^;] You can buy fortune parchments which will either say "you will have a great year - loads o fun, health, happiness and money" or "you will buy a small cute puppy which will grow up and eat you."
For folks who end up with a parchment that says the latter, they tie to this fence so that it doesn't come true.
