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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