- 老部（おいぺ）待休所にて Oipe memorial place
At my father's 49th memorial service、Returned to Shimokita/Higashidori Village。April 29th、Finishing the memorial service smoothly、Until then, the temporary tablets were placed in the village's resting place (gathering place for Nembutsu-ba).、prayer hall。It was moved to Mt. Osore (which has an interesting folk religious color similar to that of Mt. Osore).、My father is now one of my ancestors.。
I’ve been Higashi-dori village for my father’s memorial celemony based on buddism in Shimokita. It means 49 days passed from his death. It is quite common and important custom in Japan. After this celemony, all of living member of his family are able to do ordinary behavior. And then his spirit turn to one of our ancestors. 2012/4/30
In Japanese Buddhism、49 days after death has a very important meaning.。In Japanese Buddhism, the day of death is considered the first day.、Suppose that a trial is held every seven days regarding the merits of the dead during their lifetime.。The first seven days will be the first trial.、Even if you are dead, what will happen to your life and death in the afterlife?、I'm nervous because the first trial will be held for。There, the bereaved families support、trying to support、make the first offering。An offering is a donation to society.、This does not necessarily mean that it is performed for monks.。In short, the deceased、This means that the bereaved family will take care of the shortfall in social contribution.。And a trial is held every seven days.、The verdict will be concluded on the 7th and final trial.。Trials are always held in seven sessions.、The final episode is the most important。If it is out here, the dead cannot go to the Pure Land of Paradise.、will go to hell。Therefore, the bereaved family gives the last words to the deceased.、Load up with donations as a thank you、It is important to back up the deceased。There's no chance after this。This is why we say that the memorial service on the 49th is the most important.。
“After 49 days from death” has very impottant meaning for japanese buddism. They say that every death person must be on trial every 7 days after death about his contribution to society (it colled “kudoku” ) at their living time. If the judgement means too short, that death person can not go to Heaven. The 49 days mean the 7th trial. This is final and most impotant chance. S0 most bareaved family would like to help them from this living world. Actually we served gorgeous dinner and money to the buddist priest specially. Sometimes it seems that cost is very big money .
This memorial service is also for monks.、extremely important as a source of income。in modern Japan、It's as if Buddhism no longer exists.、It still has a large presence only when it comes to burying the dead.。The ``funeral economy'' is, so to speak, the lifeline of Japanese Buddhism.。Moreover, the sadness of the bereaved family、Relativize sadness、The gap between social needs to reduce psychological burden as much as possible、And in between the time pressure of decomposing corpses due to global warming,、Although it looks messy, it has a huge presence.。That is the modern significance of the 49-day memorial service.、We Japanese、There is no problem with funerals.、They have a strange national character.。
This celemony is not only important for death person but the priest also on a viewpoint of economy. In Japan, real buddism seems disappeared already but it has strongly existance around the celemony like this. Economy with death celemony is a life-line for japanese buddism indeed. Although most of japanese feel death celemony is out of all problem.
