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Electronic donations in a Japanese shintoist shrine



At the shintoist shrine of Atago (Tokyo, Minato-ku) they have installed a system that allows the visitors to donate money using their electronic wallets. Usually, at Japanese shrines there is a big wooden box where the visitors throw coins as a donation before praying. The word in Japanese for this box is saisenbako ??? (sai ?: offering to the gods, sen ?: money, bako ?: box). This is how a typical saisenbako looks like:
These boxes are big because originally people offered rice to the kami (gods) instead of coins like nowadays. The system installed at the Atago shrine has a keyboard where you type the number that you want to donate and then touch with electronic device on the sensor at the right side.

Left: electronic version. Right: traditional wooden seisenbako.

Via ANN News.
Atago Shrine location

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Fuente de la noticia: ageekinjapan
URL de la Fuente: http://www.ageekinjapan.com/

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