清きよめの塩しお

noun

purifying salt (thrown before a sumo bout)

Specifically the salt thrown by a sumo wrestler into the ring to purify it before a match. The term is strongly associated with sumo culture.

• 力りき士しは土ど俵ひょうに清きよめの塩しおをまく。

  The sumo wrestler throws purifying salt into the ring.