temizu or hand-wash ritual.
temizu is a hand-washing, mouth-rinsing ritual, to cleanse one's hand and mouth from impurities in shinto shrines.
there is an etiquette to it, you can google temizu and read more about it. but some basics- no drinking or washing hand directly from the basin. do not dump wooden scoop in the basin, always return upside down where you picked it up. the ritual is a 4 step process, each step will discard 1/4 of water from the cup. at the 3rd step is where you gargle the water and spit it into the trough below. you are allowed to drink the water if you think the water is clean enough (bugs, algae, flies...), but from the palm of one's hand, never touching the cup. I drank water and it is the most refreshing and sweet-tasting h20 I've ever had. didn't get sick the hour after.
temizu or hand-wash ritual.
temizu is a hand-washing, mouth-rinsing ritual, to cleanse one's hand and mouth from impurities in shinto shrines.
there is an etiquette to it, you can google temizu and read more about it. but some basics- no drinking or washing hand directly from the basin. do not dump wooden scoop in the basin, always return upside down where you picked it up. the ritual is a 4 step process, each step will discard 1/4 of water from the cup. at the 3rd step is where you gargle the water and spit it into the trough below. you are allowed to drink the water if you think the water is clean enough (bugs, algae, flies...), but from the palm of one's hand, never touching the cup. I drank water and it is the most refreshing and sweet-tasting h20 I've ever had. didn't get sick the hour after.