oonusa

A Shinto ritual purification wand which resembles a gohei except with much more paper streamer decorations attached to a wooden staff or sakaki branch (example post #2587183). If the staff is hexagonal or octagonal it is a haraegushi. The oonusa is waved over the person, object or offering in order to transfer the sins and pollutions to it.

See also

• Gohei
• Haraegushi
• Kokugakuin's Encyclopedia of Shinto (External link)

This tag implicates gohei (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: haraegushi (learn more).