Funeral

The Rokugani funeral is generally a simple service designed to help the departed on their way to Yomi. To most funerals, only family and close friends will be invited, but the more prominent an individual, the more people will attend the person's funeral. A shugenja prays for the departed, helping guide his spirit to the Realm of Ancestors, and then the body is cremated. The ashes are either interred in a family mosoleum or buried in a cemetery, marked with a stone monument. Familes return to their ancestral burial ground every year upon the Bon Festival to clean the tombstones and welcome their departed ancestors back to Nigen-do. (Phoenix p. 30)