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Mar. 27th, 2009 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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the grave of Ashikaga Takauji, who founded the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1338. His rise to power kicked off the Muromachi Period, during which many of the arts and traditions considered quintessentially Japanese were created. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bran420_7, 80% of the arts we studied during sophomore year came from this period!)
Takauji's grave is in a temple called Toji-in, which is directly behind my university. In fact, the rest of the temple graveyard is actually located within the uni grounds. Incidentally, most Japanese graves look like this. Burial is extremely rare (in fact, it might still be illegal), so the cremated remains are placed in an urn under the headstone. Whole families are usually interred under a single headstone. Burial plots are expensive, and loss of face can result from being excluded from the family plot, so you can sometimes see names written in red on gravestones. These are the names of people who are still living, but staking out their plot (as it were) in the family grave.
That will be all.
the grave of Ashikaga Takauji, who founded the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1338. His rise to power kicked off the Muromachi Period, during which many of the arts and traditions considered quintessentially Japanese were created. (
bran420_7, 80% of the arts we studied during sophomore year came from this period!) Takauji's grave is in a temple called Toji-in, which is directly behind my university. In fact, the rest of the temple graveyard is actually located within the uni grounds. Incidentally, most Japanese graves look like this. Burial is extremely rare (in fact, it might still be illegal), so the cremated remains are placed in an urn under the headstone. Whole families are usually interred under a single headstone. Burial plots are expensive, and loss of face can result from being excluded from the family plot, so you can sometimes see names written in red on gravestones. These are the names of people who are still living, but staking out their plot (as it were) in the family grave.
That will be all.
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