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A modern bidet that resembles a traditional washbasin type. A bidet (UK: / ˈ b iː d eɪ /, US: / b ɪ ˈ d eɪ / ⓘ) is a bowl or receptacle designed to be sat upon in order to wash a person's genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus.
A bidet shower in a hotel bathroom in Helsinki, Finland. A bidet shower—also known as a handheld bidet, commode shower, toilet shower, health faucet, bum shower, jet spray, hand shower, shatafa (from the Arabic: شَطَّافَة [ʃɑtˤˈtˤɑːfɑ], "hand shower rinser") or bum gun—is a hand-held triggered nozzle that is placed near the toilet and delivers a spray of water used for ...
bay – see ken.; bettō (別当) – Previously the title of the head of powerful temples, e.g. Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, etc. (still in use at the former).Also a monk who was present at Shinto shrines to perform Buddhist rites until the Meiji period, when the government forbade with the shinbutsu bunri policy the mixing of Shinto and Buddhism.
Bathrooms are generally categorized as "master bathroom", containing a shower and a bathtub that is adjoining to the largest bedroom; a "full bathroom" (or "full bath"), containing four plumbing fixtures: a toilet and sink, and either a bathtub with a shower, or a bathtub and a separate shower stall; "half bath" (or "powder room") containing ...
The Mesoamerican bath, known as temazcal in Spanish, from the Nahuatl word temazcalli, a compound of temaz ("steam") and calli ("house"), consists of a room, often in the form of a small dome, with an exterior firebox known as texictle (teʃict͜ɬe) that heats a small portion of the room's wall made of volcanic rocks; after this wall has been ...
Japanese bath may refer to: Sentō (銭湯), a type of Japanese communal bath house; Furo (お風呂), a type of bathtub commonly used in Japan; Onsen (温泉), a Japanese hot spring traditionally used for public bathing; The bathroom in a Japanese house; Customs and etiquette of Japan related to bathing
The Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese–Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.
Furo , or the more common and polite form ofuro , is a Japanese bath and/or bathroom. [1] Specifically it is a type of bath which originated as a short, steep-sided wooden bathtub . Baths of this type are found all over Japan in houses, apartments and traditional Japanese inns ( ryokan ) but are now usually made out of a plastic or stainless steel.