Ichigo-Ichie

I'm a Japanese woman living in Nara. This blog tells you how to be a "YAMATONADESHIKO". "Yamatonadeshiko" means an ideal Japanese lady who is intelligent, sophisticated and thoughtful. I learn Sado-Japanese traditional tea celemony and Ikebana-Japanese traditional flower arrangement. I introduce about Japan through my experiences. So you can get to know more about Japanese culture such as Sado,Ikebana, customs and seasonal events, especially the ones in Nara.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

A funeral

We held a funeral for my granma.
First, three Buddhist priests recite a sutra..
Next, family, relatives and people who attend a funeral burned incenses.
And then, family, relatives and the people who closed my granma put into flowers to a coffin.
After the coffin was filled up by flowers, the coffin went to a crematorium.
Of course family and relatives went there with a coffin.
After we saw the granma's coffin into an incinerator, we went back to a funeral hall and we have a meal together.
After the meal we went back to crematorium to gather granma's ashes into a pot.

We went back to a funeral hall with granma's ashes inside a pot.
And we held the celemony of the sixth day after granma's death.

And all celemony in relation to funeral was over.

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