mourning-hut

Updated: August 22, 2026

Burial rites were important ceremonials. The house hitherto tenanted by the deceased was abandoned a custom exemplified in the removal of the capital to a new site at the commencement of each reign and the body was transferred to a specially erected mourning-hut draped inside with fine, white cloth.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era