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{{Short description|Shinto water ablution pavilion}}

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{{nihongo|Chōzu-ya or temizu-ya|手水舎}} is a Shinto water ablution pavilion for a ceremonial purification rite known as temizu or {{nihongo|chōzu|手水||{{lit.|hand-water}}}}. The pavilion contains a large water-filled basin called a {{nihongo|chōzubachi|手水鉢||{{lit.|hand water basin}}}}.

At shrines, these chōzubachi are used by a worshipper to wash their left hand, right hand, mouth and finally the handle of the water ladle to purify themselves before approaching the main Shinto shrine or {{nihongo4||社殿|shaden}}. This symbolic purification is normal before worship and all manned shrines have this facility, as well as many Buddhist temples and some new religious houses of worship. The temizu-ya ("temizu-area"{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}) is usually an open area where clear water fills one or various stone basins.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Dippers ({{nihongo|hishaku|杓}}) are usually available to worshippers. In the 1990s, water for temizu at shrines was sometimes from domestic wells, and sometimes from the municipal supply.{{cite journal |author1=K Yokoi, R Nawata, S Furui, T Nagasawa, S Yanase, M Kimura, Y Itokawa |journal=Nihon Eiseigaku Zasshi |date=December 1991 |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=1009–13 |doi=10.1265/jjh.46.1009 |pmid=1779475 |script-title=ja:神社の手水の水質検査成績 |trans-title=A Report on the Hygienic Status of Sacred "Temizu" Water in Shrines |language=ja|doi-access=free }}

Originally, this purification was done at a spring, stream or seashore and this is still considered the ideal.{{failed verification|reason=Source does not discuss any 'ideal'|date=July 2020}} Worshippers at the Inner Shrine at Ise still use this traditional way of ablution.{{cite web |author= Mori Mizue |url=http://k-amc.kokugakuin.ac.jp/DM/detail.do?class_name=col_eos&data_id=22431 |title=Temizuya |language=en |website=Kokugakuin University |access-date=2020-05-28}}