The shintai (an object of worship housed in a Shinto shrine and believed to contain the spirit of a deity) is a stick about one shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm) long made of a mulberry tree, with the faces of men and women or the face of a horse written or carved on its tip, and dressed with many layers of clothing made of pieces of cloth.
神体は、桑の木で作った1尺（30センチメートル）程度の棒の先に男女の顔や馬の顔を書いたり彫ったりしたものに、布きれで作った衣を多数重ねて着せたものである。