OKUDO-SAN
Kitchen
The people in Kyoto paid honor to the kitchen hearth by referring to it as “okudo-san” (by thereby giving the hearth the honorific “san”—usually reserved for people not things). The kitchen area was considered to be sacred.
The people in Kyoto paid honor to the kitchen hearth by referring to it as “okudo-san” (by thereby giving the hearth the honorific “san”—usually reserved for people not things). The kitchen area was considered to be sacred.
