child-ghosts

Updated: May 13, 2025

'But why are those little stones piled about the statues? I ask. Well, it is because some say the child-ghosts must build little towers of stones for penance in the Sai-no-Kawara, which is the place to which all children after death must go.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series