御ご幣へい

noun

Shinto ritual staff with paper streamers

A wooden staff with zigzag paper streamers (shide) attached, used in Shinto purification rituals. The honorific prefix 御 is part of the word.

See also: 幣

• 神かん主ぬしが御ご幣へいを振ふってお祓はらいをした。

  The Shinto priest waved the gohei to perform a purification.