Tsukubai
The tsukubai (蹲踞, reads. “basin where one leans”), is a small basin of ablution which one often finds in the Chaniwa (茶庭), the gardens surrounding the houses of ceremony of the. The basin is used to purify the hands and the mouth before the ceremony, in accordance with the tradition inherited the Shintoisme. The low position of the basin obliges the people to bend down as a sign of humility from where the name of “basin where one leans”.
The tsukubai can take various forms, but generally corresponds to a stone dug fed out of water by a tube in Bambou. A ladle is used for ablutions.
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