The following photograph-rich article features fortune telling (and divination), fortune teller’s shops in Coney Island, legal issues associated with fortune tellers’ business practices, prediction of Islamo fascists’ attack on America on September 11, 2001, criteria of real seers, fraud of Global Warming cult, artworks of fortune tellers & diviners, and other fascinating topics. Most of photographs featured in this article were never shown in public before. Yamada is one of the most active educators and artists in New York City and has had over 450 fine art exhibitions internationally with his paintings and sculptures. The manuscript was produced by Dr. Eriko N. Bond, noted art critic and New York City author, as told by Yamada.

TAKESHI YAMADA

ON

FORTUNE TELLING & DIVINATION

- CONEY ISLAND SIDESHOW AND BEYOND -

Chapter 21

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

- Buddha

(Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

Takeshi Yamada and his Seara (Sea Rabbit) at his art booth at Coney Island Art Fair in June 2008.

Shown behind him is “Battle of Coney Island: Holly War of 2001” (4x6 feet, oil/acrylic on canvas).

Over two dozen of his paintings, sculptures, posters, hand-colored prints, digital illustrations,

and rogue taxidermy artworks were exhibited there at the Key Span Park baseball stadium in Coney Island.

This chapter is the Part 2 of specific future predictions with great detail and its artifacts by Takeshi Yamada after September 11, 2001. The high quality fortune telling and divination are valued significantly more today among general population than the time when fortune tellers are mare popular family entertainment at midways around the United States about 100 years ago.

Predictions After September 11, 2001

The world had changed dramatically and drastically forever after September 11, 2001.

After the detailed future prediction of Takeshi Yamada - “Rape of America” and “Rape of New York City” - became reality as 9/11 (“Nine Eleven”), he started actively supporting American troops to defeat the deadly enemy of the United States as an educator, artist, author, public speaker, and social commentator.

Yamada saw the future clearly, and chronicled the major future events in great detail in numerous artifacts as featured below.

Prediction #1: Battle of Coney Island: Holy War of New Millennium

In 1999, the subject matter of artworks by Takeshi Yamada changed dramatically. It was about War and Peace. The first new series of artwork by Takeshi Yamada was started after he moved to New York City in the summer of 2000 and completed in 2002. These series of artworks by Yamada depicted detailed scenes of World War 3 to take place in the very near future.

One of those future prediction artworks was created in the style of the mythic war that took place in the past on Coney Island (he has been living there since 2002). This monumental artwork was entitled “Battle of Coney Island: Holy War of New Millennium (Holy War of 2001)”. It is a war between today’s “civilization of life” (America) and ancient “civilization of death” (“Islamo Fascists” - this term was used by the United States President George W. Bush in his speech about terrorists, who justify their murdering people by their twisted interpretation of Islam). In this painting, Yamada predicted and illustrated the nature of this war and the end of our enemy’s leaders including the Dictator Saddam Hussein. (Hussein was democratically elected leader of his nation just like how Hitler was elected democratically by the will of people there but this is a subject matter to be explored in a different article. History clearly witnessed the death of main stream journalism and democracy in presidential election in America in 2008.) The powerful and savage dictator, Hussein was always dressed impeccably and smiled for television cameras, magazines, and newspapers but he was not featured as such in the artwork of Takeshi Yamada. In Yamada’s masterpiece, he rendered the vision of the future – the image of the end of the dictator in impeccable photographic precision – with his paints and brush on canvas nearly three years before.

Battle of Coney Island, Holly War of 2001. 48 x 72 inch, oil/acrylic on canvas, 2000-2002

(left) the appearance of Hussein as everyone saw BEFORE he became a fugitive.

(middle) detail of the masterpiece of Yamada, painted in 2002.

(right) the appearance of arrested Hussein published in American media in 2003.

 (bottom) Hussein at the moment of being captured by American military troops

The old man rendered here in Yamada’s painting, “Battle of Coney Island: Holy War of the 21st Century” (completed in 2002) is ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL to what Saddam Hussein looked like when he was arrested about a year later. Here again, Yamada saw the future and painted it in great detail BEFORE IT HAPPENED. The feared mass murderer and once savage dictator of Iraqi people was captured at 8:30pm, December 13 (Saturday), 2003. "He was caught like a rat," said Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno. Shortly after this, the human-devil was sentenced to be hung at the court of the law, and the execution (hanging) video was broadcast all over the world via internet. 

Since its completion in 2002 (started in 2000), “Battle of Coney Island” has been exhibited at major institutions such as Arsenal Gallery (New York City Park & Recreation Department. Arsenal Building), Salt Marsh Nature Center, Keyspan Park (baseball stadium), Brooklyn Public Library – Coney Island Branch, BWAC Gallery, etc. Needless to say, at opening receptions of these major fine art exhibitions, Takeshi Yamada talked about specific meanings of this artwork (future predictions) in detail to thousands of people in person.   

Although newspapers and media did not understand the deep hidden messages of Yamada’s artwork, “Battle of Coney Island: Holy War of the 21st Century”, they were visually very impressed by it and featured it in numerous publications. Shown below were just a few examples of them.

Newspaper clip, 24/7 November 3, 2003

newspaper clip, Brooklyn Free Press, November 7 - 13, 2003

For more information and news of US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Marines and Coastal Guard (including career in them), see following website. 

http://www.usmilitary.com/

Prediction #2: Japanese Samurai Warrior’s Ceremonial Reincarnation Masks

In the early summer of 2002, Yamada saw a vision when he was walking at Coney Island Beach. It was about the following poem, carved on the sacred stone tablet 5,000 years ago, excavated at the Palace of Ocean of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.

Takeshi Yamada and his “Warrior’s Ceremonial Reincarnation Mask”

(Photograph by Charles Denson, 2007)

Note: Takeshi Yamada named the area by the Coney Island lagoon of the Coney Island Creek, “Palace of Ocean” when he first saw live horseshoe crabs swimming in the early summer of 2002.   

Here is the line-by-line interpretation of the above stated prediction:

When this vision visited Yamada, he did not even create any artworks associated with Japanese samurai warriors. He even did not know anything about the Arsenal building in New York City.

Nevertheless, this vision and poem predicted Takeshi Yamada’s creation of a series of horseshoe crab artworks in the late 2002, and his art exhibition of them at the Arsenal Gallery in New York City in America in 2003 -- about one year after he first saw a live horseshoe crab in Coney Island.

newspaper clip 24/7, October 21, 2002

As stated above, after moving to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Takeshi Yamada created a series of “Japanese Samurai Warrior’s Ceremonial Reincarnation Mask” by using the shell of the Atlantic horseshoe crabs to commemorate the fighters who dedicated their life for humanity in the human civilization. (In Japanese mythology, horseshoe crabs are considered as the reincarnation of samurai warriors who fought honorably and died.) Yamada predicted this war to be a very long one with a large casualty of American troops, and he created these artworks of the faces of the warriors/troops to support them and pay homage to them. For Yamada’s this is a deadly weapon in a style of artwork - the concept is similar to Ofuda used by Onmyouji in Japan.

It was this reason, why this amulet created by Takeshi Yamada was brought into the rally and street parade to support US troops in Manhattan, New York in multiple occasions to fight against the enemy terrorists. On one of such occasions, Yamada was interviewed and his voice was featured in a newspaper as shown below.

News clip, Singtao News, March 24, 2003

Photograph of Yamada and his interview are featured in this Chinese newspaper. Yamada called Saddam Hussein “Ma” (Life-taker or Devil) described in the Buddhist Sutras.

For more information about Takeshi Yamada’s original artworks of Japanese Samurai Warrior’s Ceremonial Reincarnation Masks, see following websites.

http://www.sideshowworld.com/TY-WarrorMaskPT1.html

http://www.sideshowworld.com/TY-WarriorMask2.html

Takeshi Yamada, Seara (Sea Rabbit), and the “beach gypsy”

Coney Island-Stillwell subway station is in the background.

She does fortune telling and sell novelty items at a gift shop in New Jersey.

(For more information, see Chapter 17 about today’s business of fortune telling.)

(August 26, 2007)

Continue to Chapter 22

Copyright by Takeshi Yamada, Museum of World Wonders in Coney Island. Yamada Art Center. Brooklyn, New York, December 2007. Revised in November 2008. All Rights Reserved.    

E-mail: yamada108@verizon.net

Special thanks to Dr. Eriko N. Bond, Lauren D. Travis, Seara (Sea Rabbit), Dr. Abraham Morris, and Maremi Kakushina.

Also special thanks to Jack Frost (Senior Proofreader)

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