仏教用語・信行用語

Hyoshigi are wooden clappers, a pair of two pieces of wood around 20~25cm long and 2~3cm wide. These wooden clappers are beaten in order to maintain rhythm and to coordinate the Odaimoku during a service or chanting the Odaimoku alone at home. You beat the clappers 6 times (Nam – Myo – ho – Ren – ge – Kyo) for each Odaimoku. It is important to beat them correctly with the same speed and strength.
(At a chanting session at a temple or at an Oko meeting the Mokkin is used by the conductor and the Hyoshigi are used by the practitioners.)