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Originally Posted by Daradon
I could be completely wrong on this, but we had one in our retail store long ago facing the front door. Our manager, who was Chinese said it was a good luck charm for fortune, basically 'waving' people into the store.
That's what I was told.
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It's more of a Japanese thing, but you'll see the Chinese have them in their stores too. No doubt stealing anything that is Japanese to make up for the years of the Japanese stealing their kanji alphabet...
anyways, you're right on, it's a lucky cat or maneki neko. It's basically there to encourage more customers to come in. You'll see some variations with the cat waving and it looks like it's swinging at you. The Japanese have a hand gesture like ours where we tell people to come over. Instead of a palm up, fingers curling hand gesture, they do theirs palm down and that's basically what the cat's doing
apparently it's more lucky with bigger ones and goldish ones
