Stone side dish - Stone side dish

Japanese: 石のおかず - いしのおかず
Stone side dish - Stone side dish

...This probably means that the birth god and the newborn child eat together. A custom seen throughout the country is to put one to three pebbles on the birth meal in addition to a large serving of rice, which is called a "stone side dish." The pebbles are picked up from the beach, riverbank, where raindrops fall on the house, or the grounds of the local shrine.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "stone side dish" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…産神と産子が共食するという意味であろう。産飯の膳には高盛飯のほかに〈石のおかず〉といって1~3個の小石をのせる風が全国的にみられる。小石は浜や川原,家の雨だれ落ちのところ,氏神の境内などから拾ってくる。…

※「石のおかず」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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