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Gohei

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A Shinto wand of folded paper streamers used in purification. Not a generic staff, and not every later paper-charm souvenir.

Also known as Onusa · Heihaku

Shinto

  • Gohei is used in Shrine.

    Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat gohei as the paper-wand / streamer staff of shrine ritual — wand use at the shrine, not a shimenawa rope alone.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).