Sunday, September 16, 2007
Respect for the Aged Day
That's tomorrow. Tomorrow is a holiday all over Japan to respect the elderly. Our surviving elder spent the night last night. He does that once in a while and because he was here for the forty ninth day anyway, he stayed the night. He was depressed all day and so I put down the futon and he stayed...
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Woven Stories
Woven Stories by Karen Bremer Masuda Tanabe stared, as did every other person on the fifteenth floor in that office of the Tokugawa Building. It was not only the men who could not peel their eyeballs away from that striking creature at the entrance, but also the women found it difficult to avert...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Today the Forty Ninth Day (cont)
I was reassured to hear the vacuum cleaner going as I walked through the door my arms ladened with chrysanthemums and this other leafy thing that they use alot for death and its ceremonies here. ojiichan shuffled in behind me. Naomi chirped up that 'it didn't have to be chrysanthemums you know' to...
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Today the Forty Ninth Day
It all started last night when my sister-in-law, niece, and nephew came, arriving quite late, with dog in tow. There were three animals in the house now, with our cat and dog, all running around chasing each other, and I worried that the monk who was to come at one this afternoon might have a fur...
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Forty-nine days tomorrow
When I got married I didn't know what it meant to be married to a first son in Japan. Now that my mother-in-law passed away I know the significance of it. Tomorrow is the forty-ninth day from her death and a monk will be coming to our house to chant her to the other side. At the funeral she was...
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