In Japan, going to the toilet is not only for “convenience”, but also for rest and enjoyment. Nowadays, in Public Places in Japan, the shape of toilets is more and more valued, some like antique and appropriate “tea houses”, some like solemn, solemn churches and temples, etc., which can be described as versatile shapes and solitary ingenuity.
In addition to the exquisite shape, clean and tidy characteristics of Japanese toilets, the setting is also more humane. For example, in the female public toilet, a speaker called “Yin Ji” will be installed, as long as the switch is pressed, it can make a murmuring sound of running water to cover up the indecent sound when entering the toilet and reduce embarrassment; some toilets also install baby tables, where mothers can change diapers for babies; some also install dressers, where women who love beauty can make up their makeup and then leave.
What’s even more interesting is that the Japanese toilets are also dedicated to the “toilet god”.
It is said that the Japanese scholar Iijima Yoshiharu said in the book “Vesta and Toilet God” that “toilet” is one of the Japanese family gods and is a traditional Japanese folk belief. However, the image of the toilet god is not uniform, and most areas appear in the form of a goddess. Today, in the Tohoku region of Japan, every year on the night of January 15, the hostesses turn off the lights in the toilet, then light a candle, put a rectangular rice cake on the tray, and offer it to the toilet for worship.
In Japan, November 10 is the “Toilet Festival” every year. This program is organized by the school and is held in public toilets. All new students have to go and clean the toilets.
The Japanese believe that schools are a place to train “future politicians,” which means how he treats voters. It can be seen that the Japanese attach great importance to the “political effect” of toilets, and they have included cleaning toilets in the category of political science.
