Kiyome - Everyday Cleanliness
The practice of maintaining cleanliness in daily life as a form of spiritual discipline.
Kiyome extends purification into everyday life through attention to cleanliness. Keeping one's body, home, and surroundings clean is itself a spiritual practice that maintains the purity necessary for the kami's blessing and personal well-being.
Cleanliness in daily life reflects the purity of the heart within.
Kiyome shows how Shinto spirituality permeates ordinary life activities.
Folk traditions
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- What Shinto says about beauty
Kiyome treats keeping your body, home and surroundings clean as spiritual practice. The daily aesthetic is not ornament but cleanliness — the one form of beauty available to someone with no money and no talent.