Identifier: hildrethsjapanas02hild (find matches)
Title: Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 Clement, Ernest Wilson, 1860-1941
Subjects: Japan -- History 1185-1868
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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who come to visit it. When the seven weeks are over, the mourner shavesand dresses, opens Ins door, and goes, if an officer, toinform the governor that his days of mourning are over.He next pays a complimentary visit to all who attendedthe funeral, or have visited the grave, sending them alsoa complimentary present. The hiseki, or gravestone(almost precisely like those in use with us), is placedover the grave, and two ihai, varnished black and su-perbly gilt, are provided, one of which is sent to atemple. The other remains at home, kept in a case ina small apartment appropriated for that purpose, inwhich are kept the ihai of all the ancestors of the family.It is customary every morning, after rising and dressing,to take the ihai out of its case, and to burn a little incensebefore it, bowing the head in token of respect. Though the wearing of white garments and other for-malities of the special mourning, called imi, cease at theend of fifty days at the longest, bright colors are not to
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MOURNING 187 be worn, or a Shinto temple to be entered, for thirteenmonths, and this is called buku. For a husband, imilasts thirty days and buku thirteen months; for awife, imi twenty days and buku three months; forgrandparents and uncles, the periods are thirty daysand five months; for an eldest brother or sister, or aunton the fathers side, and great-grandparents, twentydays and three months; for great-great-grandparentsand aunts on the mothers side, fathers and mothers-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, or eldest grandchild,ten days and one month; for other grandchildren, andfor cousins of either sex, and their children, three daysand seven days. For children under the age of sevenyears, whatever the relationship, there is no mourning. The great dignitaries must wear mourning for theShogun ; all officers, civil and military, for their princes;and whoever derives his subsistence from another mustmourn for him as for a father. Pupils also must mournfor their teacher, education

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