合あい火び

noun

cooking over a fire from an unclean or mourning household; food prepared over such a fire

A traditional Shinto-related term referring to the act of cooking using fire from a home considered ritually unclean (e.g., due to death or childbirth) and the food thus prepared. Often contrasted with 別火 (separate fire). Rare in modern everyday usage.

See also: 別火

• 昔むかしは、喪も中ちゅうの家いえの火ひで料りょう理りすることを合あい火びと呼よんで避さけた。

  In the past, cooking over the fire of a house in mourning was called aibi and was avoided.

• 合あい火びの考かんがえ方かたは、別べっ火かと対ついになる伝でん統とう的てきな穢けがれの観かん念ねんに基もとづく。

  The concept of aibi is based on the traditional notion of impurity, paired with the idea of bekka (separate fire).