Comments on: Sunday Snapshot: Kyoto Graveyard http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/ The latest cool stuff from Japan Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Tim http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15526 Tim Mon, 14 May 2007 06:25:34 +0000 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15526 Yup. Most families don't have a plot. My grandfather's ashes are at a temple and it's like...well...a locker room. He's #202 and the top part opens up and there's a mini shrine in there and the bottom part is where his ashes are kept in a little tin. The room has rows and rows of these and each are about, say, a foot and a half or so wide. Get's a bit cramped if the neighbors are there paying their respects too. And even that is expensive. Something like $30,000 or more for a 20 year lease. After that, if you don't pay up, they will, very respectfully, put the ashes in a communal plot...which just doesn't sound soo...well...dignified. Don't want grandfather's ashes being mixed in with everyone else's you know? I don't see this happening in the US anytime soon but in Asia and parts of Europe, I can see this become more and more common. It's already pretty common here in Japan. :/ Yup. Most families don’t have a plot. My grandfather’s ashes are at a temple and it’s like…well…a locker room. He’s #202 and the top part opens up and there’s a mini shrine in there and the bottom part is where his ashes are kept in a little tin. The room has rows and rows of these and each are about, say, a foot and a half or so wide. Get’s a bit cramped if the neighbors are there paying their respects too.

And even that is expensive. Something like $30,000 or more for a 20 year lease. After that, if you don’t pay up, they will, very respectfully, put the ashes in a communal plot…which just doesn’t sound soo…well…dignified. Don’t want grandfather’s ashes being mixed in with everyone else’s you know?

I don’t see this happening in the US anytime soon but in Asia and parts of Europe, I can see this become more and more common. It’s already pretty common here in Japan. :/

]]> By: Pixel_K http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15545 Pixel_K Mon, 14 May 2007 17:11:47 +0000 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15545 Been there too : http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0271.JPG http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0323.JPG http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0326.JPG It's behind the Shichaku-In, in Kyoto Been there too :
http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0271.JPG
http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0323.JPG
http://japon.knackes.free.fr/Photos/Moi/DSCN0326.JPG
It’s behind the Shichaku-In, in Kyoto

]]> By: Josh http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15590 Josh Tue, 15 May 2007 05:30:25 +0000 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15590 If only we could learn to better utilize space. I say we combine a space-intensive function like burial with another space-intensive activity...like golf. It'd be like a really big game of pachinko! That's popular in Japan, right? Fun for the whole family! And you could visit great-grandma, too! If only we could learn to better utilize space. I say we combine a space-intensive function like burial with another space-intensive activity…like golf. It’d be like a really big game of pachinko! That’s popular in Japan, right?

Fun for the whole family! And you could visit great-grandma, too!

]]> By: nežinau.lt » Įrašų archyvas » Perliukai #229 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15647 nežinau.lt » Įrašų archyvas » Perliukai #229 Wed, 16 May 2007 08:31:17 +0000 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-15647 [...] tankis = kapinių tankis. Tai labai gerai matyti Kyoto miesto Japonijoje kapavietėse. Gal verta pradėti statyti daugiaaukštes? (Plastic [...] […] tankis = kapinių tankis. Tai labai gerai matyti Kyoto miesto Japonijoje kapavietėse. Gal verta pradėti statyti daugiaaukštes? (Plastic […]

]]> By: Sam Singletary http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-32639 Sam Singletary Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:45:53 +0000 http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/05/13/sunday-snapshot-kyoto-graveyard/#comment-32639 This graveyard was actually begun by my family (I actually think they technically still have ownership of it). My ancestors are all buried here. This graveyard was actually begun by my family (I actually think they technically still have ownership of it). My ancestors are all buried here.

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