misogi-harai

Updated: January 31, 2026

In later times both rites were compounded into one, the misogi-harai, or simply the harai. This principle of cleanliness found expression in the architecture of Shinto shrines; plain white wood was everywhere employed and ornamentation of every kind eschewed.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era