Excerpt from Tales From Lafcadio Hearn So when two out of one family have been buried in the same year, a third grave is made next to the graves of those two, and in it is put a coffin containing only a little figure of straw - ward 7zz'flgy0; and over that grave a small tombstone is set up, bearing a kaimyo. The priests of the temple to which the graveyard belongs write the kaimyo for these little gravestones. By making a m'flgyo-m-fia/l'a it is thought that a death may be prevented. We listen for the rest, Ine.

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