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Bidets are common bathroom fixtures in the Arab world and in Catholic countries, [13] such as France (present in 95% of households in 1990), Italy (the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975), [17] Spain (but in recent times new or renewed houses tend to have bathrooms without bidets, except the luxurious ones), [18 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The timba (pail) and the tabo (dipper) are two essentials in Philippine bathrooms and bathing areas.. The tabò (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈtaːbɔʔ]) is the traditional hygiene tool primarily for cleansing, bathing, and cleaning the floor of the bathroom in the Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei.
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 New Interconfessional Translation Bible (Japanese: 新共同訳聖書, Hepburn: Shin Kyōdō Yaku Seisho, lit. "New Joint Translation Bible") is a Japanese translation of the Christian Bible, completed in 1987, and is currently the most widely used Japanese Bible, by both Catholics and Protestants.
[1] Like the NIT, the JBSIV is an ecumenical translation of the Bible by Japanese Catholic and Protestant Christians. Their aim, as with its predecessor, was to create the standard version of the Bible for the "next generation" of Christians, used for worship and study by both Catholics and Protestants in Japan. [1]