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(Late 2010s)
At The Shrine
How to use the hand washing basin
First, wash your left hand.
Next, wash your right hand.
Finally, pour water into your left hand and rinse your mouth.
How to worship (2 bows, 2 claps, 1 bow)
First, bow twice. (Bend your waist 90 degrees and bow your head.)
Next, place your hands together at chest height, clap twice, and pray.
Finally, bow once.
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This worship ritual is specific to the Shinto shrine and not applicable to the Buddhism temples where we don't clap our hands. I wonder when and how it was originally established to be this way. Is it written somewhere? If I deviate from this pattern, will I be offending and punished by a Shinto god? These are some of my naive questions.