The kamidana is the domestic shrine: a small wooden structure on a high shelf, above eye level, ideally facing south or east, in a quiet room and not above a door or under a toilet. It holds ofuda — talismans — from Ise and from the local shrine, replaced each New Year and the old ones returned to be burned. The daily practice is fresh rice, water, salt and often sake set out in small vessels in the morning, the doors opened, and the same two bows, two claps, one bow used at a shrine; the offerings are afterwards eaten by the family rather than discarded. Many households also keep a Buddhist butsudan for the ancestors in the same house, and the division is fairly clear — the kamidana is for the kami and for the year ahead, the butsudan is for the dead. The number of homes with a kamidana has fallen below half and continues to fall, largely because apartments have no suitable wall and because the practice depended on an older person in the house doing it.