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ema

noun
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A small wooden plaque on which a wish or prayer is written and hung at a Shinto shrine in Japan.
"Visitors hung their ema on a rack near the shrine entrance."

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In plain EnglishA wish tablet used in Japanese shrine tradition, usually bought on-site and hung up after the wish is written on it.

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Etymology

From Japanese ema, literally "picture-horse" — plaques originally often depicted horses, once offered live to shrines.

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