Flat, light wooden libation stick (iku-pasuy), pointed at both ends (one end more sharply pointed than the other). Decorated with carved horizontal lines and diamond shapes on one side. This example has three parallel lines at each end, the mark of the group living alongside the river Sarugawa, the group which attended the Anglo-Japanese exhibition in 1910. The chevron shape at the tip represents a tongue, as the stick will 'speak' the owner's prayer to the god. There is an owner's mark on the reverse of this example, resembling the number 7 in Japanese script.
