Everyone Stops at This Stone Basin Before the Shrine. Nobody Tells You What to Do.
To say the purification basin at the entrance to a shrine in Japanese, say 手水舎 (chouzuya).
You walk under the torii gate and everyone ahead of you stops at a trough of running water.
手水舎
chouzuya
the purification basin at the entrance to a shrine
In this video
- ここで手を清めます。 koko de te o kiyomemasu. Here you purify your hands.
- 手を洗ってから、お参りします。 te o aratte kara, omairi shimasu. You wash your hands, then you go and pray.
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