amacha

Updated: May 4, 2025

There is a sound of happy voices from the temple, and the steps are crowded with smiling mothers and laughing children. Entering, I find women and babies pressing about a lacquered table in front of the doorway. Upon it is a little tub-shaped vessel of sweet tea amacha; and standing in the tea is a tiny figure of Buddha, one hand pointing upward and one downward.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series