How do you say "Do you have a chopstick rest?" in Japanese?

Name: You Stood Your Chopsticks Up in the Rice. In Japan You Just Set the Table for a Funeral.
Uploaded: 2026-08-18T13:34:09Z
Duration: 25 s
Description: Learn to say 箸置き、ありますか？ (hashioki, arimasu ka?) — Do you have a chopstick rest?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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You Stood Your Chopsticks Up in the Rice. In Japan You Just Set the Table for a Funeral.

To say Do you have a chopstick rest? in Japanese, say 箸置き、ありますか？ (hashioki, arimasu ka?).

Chopsticks standing straight up in a bowl of rice. There is exactly one meal in Japan where that happens, and nobody at it is eating.

箸置き、ありますか？ hashioki, arimasu ka? Do you have a chopstick rest?

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Kanji in this phrase

立て箸: たてばし
枕飯: まくらめし
箸置き: はしおき

Why this phrase

立て箸, chopsticks planted upright in the rice, copies 枕飯, the bowl set beside the dead at a Japanese funeral. It isn't a fussy table rule, it just reads as death at a dinner table, and nobody is going to tell you. Lay them across the 箸置き instead, and when the table hasn't got one, fold the paper sleeve into a little stand. Scene: an izakaya table. Kōfuku parks his chopsticks in the rice without thinking; Hana quietly stops him, tells him what it looks like, and shows him the 箸置き.