手板
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
| 手 | 板 |
Noun
手板 (hiragana ていた, romaji teita)
- a flat ritual baton or scepter of Chinese origin. Usually made of woods like Japanese yew, holly, cherry, sakaki, (Japanese cedar,) the shaku is often seen in portraits of shoguns and noblemen, but is now used mostly by Shinto priests (kannushi).
Synonyms
- 魔法の杖 (まほうのつえ, mahō-no-tsue)
- 杖 (つえ, tsue)
- 御幣 (ごへい, gohei; or おんべ, onbe): a wooden shinto wand, with paper, zigzag streamers
- 幣束 (へいそく, heisoku)
- 大幣 (おおぬさ, ōnusa)
- 祓串 (はらいくし, haraegushi)
- 幣 (ぬさ, nusa)
- 笏 (しゃく, shaku)