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Marge Kumaki pointed out that the Japanese word for flip-flops is “zori.”

That they remove their zori sandals and go barefoot is enough to suggest Japaneseness.

Only the occasional wooden zori indicates their Japanese origin.

The same with zori, a coarse sort being purchasable for 2 sen a pair.

Pilgrims bring with them gifts of small straw sandals—the zori that children wear—and leave them before the cavern, that the feet of the little ghosts may not be wounded by the sharp rocks.