MASTABA

Abstract

These phenomenons show that the meaning of a grave in Japan is changing. The traditional Japanese graves have been eternal places where ancestors sleep. Some modern Japanese graves are the things or places for their family and posterity to remember and hand down the memory of ancestors. These show, today, that many Japanese people think that archiving dead’s memories is more important than the place where dead lies itself. And we think that these modern graves should be called ”family shrines”.