. The Japanese empire and its economic conditions . A BUDDHIST FUNERAL IX HUMBLE IN THE GAKUEN OF AN ANCn-;NT BUDDHIST TEMPLE, To face p. 94. THE JAPANESE EMPIRE 95 With the Buddhists it is otherwise. The priest hereplays a great rôle, and after having recited prayers in themortuary chamber, he goes through a ceremonial, finallyreciting more prayers in the cemetery. Formerly the cemeteries surrounded the temples—as inour villages, v^here they are found adjoining the churches—thus every part of Tokyo has several cemeteries. TheJapanese burn or bury their dead, according to theBuddhist se
. The Japanese empire and its economic conditions . A BUDDHIST FUNERAL IX HUMBLE IN THE GAKUEN OF AN ANCn-;NT BUDDHIST TEMPLE, To face p. 94. THE JAPANESE EMPIRE 95 With the Buddhists it is otherwise. The priest hereplays a great rôle, and after having recited prayers in themortuary chamber, he goes through a ceremonial, finallyreciting more prayers in the cemetery. Formerly the cemeteries surrounded the temples—as inour villages, v^here they are found adjoining the churches—thus every part of Tokyo has several cemeteries. TheJapanese burn or bury their dead, according to theBuddhist sect they follow. The Shintoists always a place on the outskirts of Tokyo there is placed atthe service of those employing cremation a crematorykiln for wealthy persons and a fir-tree pyre for the poor ;when the corpse is reduced to ashes they are collectedinto an urn and buried. The tombs are all the same. A base in stone supportsa small square column, upon the four surfaces of whichare engraved all sorts of Buddhist maxims and the post-humous name of the deceased person
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