Present in traditional houses as well as in modern homes, in stores, restaurants or in martial art dojos, kamidana is a place dedicated to kami, the Shinto gods.
Kami-dana means “god-shelf", and as the name suggests, it is a shelf placed high on the wall, displaying sacred objects, a shimenawa twisted rice straw rope, sometimes some offerings such as food, water, sake, and shrubs of sakaki, an evergreen sacred tree.
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