Families gone yet not Forgotten

A collective grave setting for old Japanese family graves.

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• Japan
• Japanese
• Buddhist
• Buddhism
• temple
• cemetery
• Jizo
• Tokaido
• Softypapa

[JimmyRond]

fascinating video, really enjoyed it. Just out of interest with yourself being American but living in japan for quite some time whats your personal religious beliefs? Hope that's not too personal, just interesting considering Buddhism in Japan.

[softypapa]

Hello JimmyRond, Thank you for your nice words. As for religion I really do not have any that I follow. I do respect the Japanese Shinto religion as well as Buddhism though I am also fascinated with the religions of the West. I work at a Catholic elementary school and it's interesting to experience this little oasis of the west amidst the traditions of the far east. -Kurt :-)

[Luminasita]

An amazing insight into the culture, so well thought out. It seems so peaceful there, as opposed to the feelings (agreeing with Bluegoo!) from most western cemeteries, and surprisingly tended for being untended.

Your camera control is pretty slick! Thank you so much for sharing this, how did you happen upon it?

~Kat

[softypapa]

Hello Kat, One thing that I really do enjoy about many cemeteries in the USA is how the personality of some people is displayed on their grave or marker. I remember visiting one old graveyard in a small mining town in the Colorado Rockies where nearly every old grave had some curious, profound or just a funny quote inscribed which told us a little about the person. I really like that.

Though I have been passing this cemetery for years I only recently found it by accident. -Kurt :-)

[nutchan0731]

This grave is very large because of rural..

This is a grave of the head of the house(honke 本家）、 eldest son's lineage.

The branch family should newly make the grave as a new head of the house. they have to make it different place

my grandparents moved from shiga prefecture to Kofu 100years ago . he made a his garave in kofu as a new honke(本家）　because my grand father was not an eldest. so he had to make a new grave.

[softypapa]

Hello nutchan0731, Thank you for sharing this important and interesting information with us. -Kurt :-)

[dmarie1184]

I have a bit of a fascination with old cemeteries here in the States--especially the ones that are out in the middle of a farm field, where time seems to have forgotten them...

I like looking at the stones and imagining what the person who is buried there would've been like. I guess it's that writer's mind that I have that likes to come up with all sorts of different stories about what could've been...

[FeileCase]

WoW~ I Never knew. :)

[MicknFumi]

Interesting video, I visited a Japanese cemetry beside The Bamboo Palace in Kamakura. I was facinated by the stonework. I'm going to visit my wifes families resting place which is in an old house in Nagaoka in January.

[Peekingduck]

Nice video and thoughts.

Personally I hardly ever see any cemeteries that are as peacefully situated in my part of Japan. Most are next to the roads and, to be quite honest, not at all peaceful at all but covered in dust etc.

Where you are, it seems quite the opposite.

Awesome clip.

GREAT to see that there are still places that peaceful around.

[reymiland]

So beautiful! A thousand years is but a single day. It is very calming and peaceful to see that these markers are being taken care of. So very old and yet still an importance is attached to them.

Thank you for the video.