塩しお籠かご

noun

basket for salt by the ring

In sumo, a small basket placed near the dohyō that holds salt used by wrestlers for purification before a bout.

• 力りき士しは塩しお籠かごから塩しおを取とって土ど俵ひょうにまく。

  The wrestler takes salt from the salt basket and scatters it on the ring.