Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A cemetery for KK

My daughter-in-law Kristina studies bones, and funerary customs, and grave goods.  When she travels, she seeks out cemeteries.  Here's one I stumbled on in Tokyo.

I can't read the inscriptions, of course, so I have no idea whether these monuments represent one person or a whole clan.  What struck me is how densely populated the place is.  It's also completely paved over.  There's no lawn to tend, nothing to tidy up.

Each monument has a couple of vases, and some have flowers.  In the corner, I found a tap and a group of charming wooden pails with dippers for watering the flowers.

1 comment:

  1. All the concrete makes it look like a miniature city-scape full of highrises. Neat!

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