High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An oshibori or hot towel in English is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars in Japan and in Japanese restaurants worldwide. Oshibori are used to clean one's hands before eating, and have long been a common sight in Japan. Cold oshibori are used in summer, and hot oshibori in winter. In mah-jong parlors, the words atsushibo and tsumeshibo, from the Japanese words atsui, hot, and tsumetai, cold, are sometimes used to refer to hot and cold oshibori respectively. The word oshibori comes from the Japanese word shiboru, meaning "to wring", with the polite prefix o, which is added to several types of nouns, including many nouns related to washing or food. In Japanese script, the word oshibori is normally written in hiragana, seldom using kanji. Oshibori are also known as otefuki, from the Japanese te (hand) and fuku, to wipe.

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