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Japanese people use various cutleries, but they most often to use chopstick which in japanese called hashi. There are many variety of chopsticks that use in japan, like chopstick for eating, cooking, etc. Materials and type of the chopsticks is also various, depending on the usage, starting from wood, bamboo, bone to metal.

Chopsticks that used to be eating is chopsticks that made from wood or bamboo. Chopsticks that are commonly used in japanese restaurant is wood chopsticks waribashi which is used by pull the middle to divide into 2 part. There are also chopsticks which is expensive and made from willow tree which is only used in formal event or matsuri festival.
Use chopsticks have many rules. Here is it;

1. Chopstick is held with the pointed part at the bottom to take food, meanwhile the large part is on the above.

2. There is time when we need to reverse the position of the chopstick. We use the large part of the chopstick to take food from plate dish. It means so that the part of the chopstick which we used to get into our mouth and already exposed with saliva do not get mixed into the plate dish.

3. Dont stir food in plate dish. Just take it fastly.

4. We are not allowed to stick in chopstick vertically into bowl filled with rice. This is considered as taboo because its common with incense which is stuck in a pitcher in Japan's funeral.

5. Dont pass food from chopstick to chopstick because its considered common with the activity to pass the bone in a funeral.

6. Chopstick should be held with finger, not with a fist.

7. If you want to take bowl or other cutleries, like glass, you better put your chopstick on the table first. Because, take bowl or glass while hold chopstick will be considered rude.

8. Dont suck the chopstick even the food is very-very delicous. Its not good.