Tag Archives: shazai

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg_vny5sFpo&feature=player_embedded#!

The ancient Japanese art of shazai: the expression of remorse via bowing.  OK, a semi tongue-in-cheek video by Japan Culture Lab, but still.

Our favourite is ‘Dogeza’: to be used when one is ‘caught red-handed in an orgy of evil‘.

Nice.