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Cultural · Dining

N4

日本では、お箸をご飯に立てたり、食べ物をお箸からお箸で渡したりするのはマナー違反です。In Japan, sticking chopsticks upright in rice or passing food from chopstick to chopstick is considered bad manners. (Cultural · Dining, Formal to Acquaintance, JLPT N4)

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日本では、お箸をご飯に立てたり、食べ物をお箸からお箸で渡したりするのはマナー違反です。

にほんでは、おはしをごはんにたてたり、たべものをおはしからおはしでわたしたりするのはまなーいはんです。

In Japan, sticking chopsticks upright in rice or passing food from chopstick to chopstick is considered bad manners.

Romaji: Nihon dewa, ohashi wo gohan ni tatetari, tabemono wo ohashi kara ohashi de watashitari suru no wa manaa ihan desu. / Reply Romaji: Shiranakatta. Ki wo tsukemasu.

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知らなかった。気をつけます。

しらなかった。きをつけます。

I didn't know that. I'll be careful.

Gesture & etiquette

If demonstrating the DO and DON'T, use visual exaggeration of the wrong action briefly before showing the correct alternative (resting chopsticks on the 箸置き, hashi-oki rest). Seeing both makes the rule memorable.

Both taboo actions mimic funeral rituals: standing chopsticks in rice (立て箸) is done at Buddhist death rites; passing food chopstick-to-chopstick (箸渡し) mirrors the passing of cremated bones. Committing either at a meal table creates deep discomfort for Japanese diners.

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