forehead

On-Yomi: ガク — Kun-Yomi: ひたい

Koohii stories:

1) [Kurisu] 15-3-2008(231): Sign the guestbook page with your forehead. (Picture a guestbook full of forehead prints like thumbprints).

2) [daredawg3583] 7-12-2007(70): In New Zealand, people welcome guests by touching their foreheads together.

3) [akrodha] 3-10-2006(47): Thankful guests bow so much, you never see their entire heads, just their foreheads.

4) [misha] 11-7-2007(40): The guest lowers his forehead as he turns the page in a guestbook.

5) [Green_Airplane] 26-6-2008(33): As a guest in Japan, being too tall for their standards, I have to bow my head every time I enter someone's house, or else I'll smack my forehead.