Japan and the Japanese illustrated . - expensive to his nearest relatives. They have to bear the cost of the DEATH. 283 religious ceremonies which arc in (lie province of the bonzes: they h;ne to pay furthe last sacraments ; the watching and the praying, whicli is kept up without intermissionin the house of the deceased until the funeral, the service which precedes the departure ofthe funeral procession, the funeral mass celebrated in the temple, and all the requisitesfor the burial or the burning of the corpse ; such as the coHin, draperies, torches, flowers,. A VISIT UK CONDI)].liNPK. combus
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . - expensive to his nearest relatives. They have to bear the cost of the DEATH. 283 religious ceremonies which arc in (lie province of the bonzes: they h;ne to pay furthe last sacraments ; the watching and the praying, whicli is kept up without intermissionin the house of the deceased until the funeral, the service which precedes the departure ofthe funeral procession, the funeral mass celebrated in the temple, and all the requisitesfor the burial or the burning of the corpse ; such as the coHin, draperies, torches, flowers,. A VISIT UK CONDI)].liNPK. combustibles, urn, tomb, (-oUections and offerings given to the bonzes. Ihen comes theturn of the coolies who have washed tlic body, of .those who have carried the coffin, andthe convent servants whose duties lie within the enclosure of the cemetery. JJutthis is not all ; a pious custom ordains tliat all persons of a certain station shall installa servant at the house door charged witli the distribution of alms, in small coins, to u 0 2 284 LIFE IN JAPAN all the poor, indiscriminately, who come to seek tliem. And also, on the return ofthe funeral procession, all the party are expected to take leave of the head of theaflBicted family, who testifies his gratitude by giving them a handsome repast. It is not, however, in these harassing expenses only that we must seek for the sourceof the hardly disguised impatience with which the Japanese discharge the last ofiicestowards their neighbours. The truth is, that though they are hardened to the sightof blood, and to
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