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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of しめなわ – see the following entry.
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- Lengths of laid rice straw rope used for ritual purification in Shinto shrines. They can vary in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres, and are often seen festooned with shide. A space bound by shimenawa often indicates a sacred or pure space, such as that of a Shinto shrine.
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| (This term, しめなわ (shimenawa), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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