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One of these ceremonies consisted in the recital of poems in praise of the dead, which poems were called shinobigoto. There was music also of flutes and drums, and dancing; and at night a fire was kept burning before the house. After all this had been done for the fixed period of mourning eight days, according to some authorities, fourteen according to others the corpse was interred.
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