Japanese → English transcript
Please do not drop your chopsticks. So, sir, do you know why Japanese people eat rice with chopsticks?
No? You do not know? Well, it is the same as a “bridge.” It is called a bridge because it connects this side’s end and that side’s end with a road.
So it is called a “bridge.” Then what do these chopsticks connect? They connect our living lives
with the lives that died to become our food. They connect those, so the lives that have been allowed to live and…
The food is something sacred that carries on lives that have died for us. You lay your chopsticks sideways, right? By lifting them up when you eat…
…you are breaking the sacred boundary called this torii. That means the boundary between the lives that died and the lives that are living disappears.
For Japanese people, a meal is that sacred, so we say “I humbly receive this life.”
Please do not drop your chopsticks. All right, take your time.
End of transcript · 167 words · machine translated
Original transcript (Japanese)
箸落とさないでくださいよあのねお客さんなんで日本人は箸でご飯食べるか知ってますか? ううん知らないこれねあの「橋」と一緒なんですよこちら側の端っことこちら側の端っこを繋 ぐ道路だから 「橋」って言うんですよじゃあこの箸は何と何を繋いでるんでしょうねこれは私たち生きてる 命と 食事として死んでくれた命それを繋いでるんですよだから生かされた命と 死んでくれた命を繋ぐ神聖なものなんですよね箸を横に置いてありますよねこれを食事の時に 上に上げることによって
この鳥居という結界が解かれるんですよそれで亡くなった命と生かされてる命の境界がなくな るってことなんです 日本人にとっては食事というのはそれだけ神聖なものだったのだから命をいただきますと言う んですよ 箸落とさないでくださいねじゃあごゆっくり
