FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
NAORAI
Modified from Anderson, Jennifer Lea. 1991. An introduction to the Japanese way of tea. State University of New York, Albany.
is a Shinto ritual during the course of which celebrants once consumed food and sake with a deity in the belief that they could thus share in its divinity. More recently, the food consumed has been different than that offered to the divinity. Sacred sake is still shared, however.
