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The Buddhist family worship coexists in the vast majority of Izumo homes with the Shinto family worship; and whether the dead be honoured in the mitamaya or before the butsudan altogether depends upon the religious traditions of the household.
The number of mortuary tablets in a household shrine does not generally exceed five or six, only grandparents and parents and the recently dead being thus represented; but the name of remoter ancestors are inscribed upon scrolls, which are kept in the Butsudan or the mitamaya. Whatever be the family rite, prayers are repeated and offerings are placed before the ancestral tablets every day.
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