After that I got a butsudan, which is a beautiful little cabinet. ❋ Turner, Tina (1952)
The butsudan looks like a little altar; but the idea is not that you're worshiping this piece of paper or anything. ❋ Turner, Tina (1952)
I kept the butsudan in an empty room we had, and when Ike was out I would do the chant and read the book Valerie had given me, and I could feel myself becoming stronger-becoming less and less afraid. ❋ Turner, Tina (1952)
And the butsudan really scared him for some reason; I thought he was going to faint. ❋ Turner, Tina (1952)
The Buddhist family worship coexists in the vast majority of Izumo homes with the Shinto family worship; and whether the dead be honoured in the mitamaya or before the butsudan altogether depends upon the religious traditions of the household. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Tall and beautiful flower - vases on each side of the butsudan are filled with blossoming sprays, exquisitely arranged. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The form of the butsudan or butsuma, the character of its holy images, its ofuda, or its pictures, and even the prayers said before it, differ according to the fifteen different shu, or sects; and a very large volume would have to be written in order to treat the subject of the butsuma exhaustively. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Before the main entrance, and facing the high shrine, a new butsudan has been placed, within whose open doors the ihai of the dead boy glimmers in lacquer and gilding. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
This written promise he sealed with his seal, and placed in the butsudan beside the mortuary tablet of O-Tei. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
It had caused her much pain to lose her home; but it grieved her still more that, in becoming weak and old, she could no longer dance each evening before the butsudan, to please the spirit of the dead whom she had loved. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Between the butsudan and the honzon a little table has been placed; and on either side of it the priests kneel in ranks, facing each other: rows of polished heads, and splendours of vermilion silks and vestments gold - embroidered. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
On a rude shelf he recognised the butsudan of 'forty years before, with its tablet, and now, as then, a tiny lamp was burning in front of the kaimyo. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
In Mr. Morse's own illustration of a Buddhist household shrine (p. 226) it does not rest on the floor at all, but on the upper shelf of a cupboard, which must not be confounded with the butsudan -- a very small one. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The family ancestors or family dead are worshipped either in a separate room (called the mitamaya or 'Spirit Chamber'), or, if worshipped according to the Buddhist rites, before the butsuma or butsudan. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
In the better class of houses special architectural arrangements are made for the butsudan; an alcove, recess, or other contrivance, often so arranged as to be concealed from view by ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
And upon a small stand before the butsudan have been placed an incense-vessel with bundles of senko-rods and offerings of fruits, confections, rice, and flowers. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
She spread the mattress on the floor, fetched a wooden pillow, suspended her paper mosquito-curtain, unfolded a large screen on the side of the bed toward the butsudan, and then bade him good-night in a manner that assured him she wished him to retire at once; which he did, not without some reluctance at the thought of all the trouble he had unintentionally caused her. º3 ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Before her illuminated butsudan the young woman, magnificently attired, was dancing all alone. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
At that time the household butsudan is always exposed to view, and often moved from its usual place in order to obtain room for the offerings to be set before it. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The butsudan of a very poor household may be worth a few cents, but the rich devotee might purchase in Kyoto a shrine worth as many thousands of yen as he could pay. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
