Modern Passings : : Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan / / Andrew Bernstein.
What to do with the dead?In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese c...
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