Essays about: "Japanese burial"

Found 1 essay containing the words Japanese burial.

  1. 1. Japanese Urban Tree Burials: Diversity and Individualization

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Lina Nilsson Södergren; [2020]
    Keywords : Jumokusō; Tree burial; Japanese burial; Urban burials; Individualization; Natural burial; Memorialization; Japan; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Parallel with demographic concerns and an individualization process alternative burial practices in Japan have developed. One of them is tree burials that eliminates obligations for descendants to tend the grave, takes up relatively little space in a graveyard and enables memorialization while also providing an opportunity for the dead to remove one’s self from household constraints. READ MORE