四し手で

noun

Shinto paper streamer; zigzag paper strip

A ritual paper decoration used in Shinto contexts, often attached to sacred ropes (shimenawa) or ritual wands. Typically white or colored paper folded in a zigzag pattern.

• 神じん社じゃのしめ縄なわに四し手でが下さがっている。

  Shide are hanging from the sacred rope at the shrine.

• 神かん主ぬしが紙かみ垂しでを新あたらしく作つくり替かえた。

  The Shinto priest replaced the paper streamers with new ones.

noun

hornbeam (tree)

Only when written 四手 / 垂 / 椣

A deciduous tree in the birch family, genus Carpinus. The name しで is also used for several species native to Japan. The kanji 四手 and 垂 are used for this sense, but 椣 is the specific botanical kanji.

• この山やまには四し手での木きがたくさん生はえている。

  Many hornbeam trees grow on this mountain.

• 四し手では家か具ぐの材ざい料りょうとして使つかわれることがある。

  Hornbeam wood is sometimes used for furniture.