Here we are in the cemetary. The man who looks like he has no legs in front of the monument is actually standing in a hole where he is putting the bones in to join the family members who preceded her. A Canadian friend once told me she had figured out that Japanese buried their dead standing up--only way to get them to use so little space. She knows better now since I told her that under each stone is a storage place for the bone box only. Everyone is cremated here to tiny bones. In the photo below you can see the long wooden sticks. This is the sticks bought from the temple by the immediate family. I think these are where the buddist name is given the dead person. I heard the more money the better the name.
Here we are in the cemetary. The man who looks like he has no legs in front of the monument is actually standing in a hole where he is putting the bones in to join the family members who preceded her. A Canadian friend once told me she had figured out that Japanese buried their dead standing up--only way to get them to use so little space. She knows better now since I told her that under each stone is a storage place for the bone box only. Everyone is cremated here to tiny bones. In the photo below you can see the long wooden sticks. This is the sticks bought from the temple by the immediate family. I think these are where the buddist name is given the dead person. I heard the more money the better the name.
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