Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan by Andrew Bernstein

Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan

Andrew Bernstein

242 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of ...

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