Oshibori Oshibori An or hot towel in English is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars, and used to clean one's hands before eating. Oshibori has long been part of Hospitality Culture in Japan: in "The Tale of Genji" era it was used for visitors; during the Edo period it was used in Hatago (); later it started to be used in many restaurants. It eventually spread to worldwide use. Cold oshibori are used in summer, and hot oshibori in winter. In Japan, October 29 has been observed as the day of Oshibori since
An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann endangerment and death of various regional dialects. "The situation is more complex still given the loss of language and culture, the widespread dispersal of people through mass emigration and the silencing of the Irish-language sources – all of which ensures only a very hazy picture of our past." An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann therefore is significant to the history of Irish because of its engagement of social history with old Irish dialect that gives insight to unperturbed, authentic Irish life before the twentieth century. There were native speakers of Irish in South Tipperary until the middle of the 20th