Subject: Re: [FanFic] graves?
From: Caroline Seawright
Date: 2/2/1996, 7:10 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

	Hi hi, it's me again! Anyway, I wanted to ask some less than
cherrful question/questions. When ppl in Japan visit late relatives
(or fiancees, in this case), what do they do? What is the grave like?
Is it any different from the American culture? (Anyone that's
asking, this is for AOFA)

In Ranma manga 22, Akane and everyone else goes to visit her mother's
grave... The graves seem to be tall rectangular tombstones with kanji
on the, going downwards, and Akane places a bunch of flowers at the
base of the stone. All the graves are really close to the next one,
too. It looks like they are burning incense, and Kasumi is sprinkling
water(?) on the top of the stone from a hand held water scoop... or
that's what it looks like. You should look in a book on shintoism or
something like that... maybe it's bhuddist? I can't recall...

Kun-chan...