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jmdict 2837403 Active (id: 2270500)
両墓制
りょうぼせい
1. [n] [hist]
▶ double-grave system
▶ [expl] system of having one grave for the body and a separate one for prayers and services
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2837405 捨て墓【すてばか】 1. grave for the body of a deceased person
  ⇐ see: 2837404 埋め墓【うめばか】 1. burial grave; grave for the body in a two-grave system
  ⇐ see: 2837406 参り墓【まいりばか】 1. visitation grave; memorial for prayers and services in a two-grave system



History:
6. A 2023-06-02 23:06:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
OK. Not sure it's needed since it's in the first gloss, but I'm not fussed.
5. A* 2023-06-02 11:59:38  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
The way we usually do expl today, it should contain the word "system".
  Diff:
@@ -14 +14 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">having one grave for the body and a separate one for prayers and services</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">system of having one grave for the body and a separate one for prayers and services</gloss>
4. A 2023-06-02 05:00:53  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
KOD: 〔死者を埋めた埋め墓と, 詣でるための参り墓を別々に作った土葬時代の風習〕 the 「double-grave [double-tomb] system; the use of two “graves”, one for the physical remains of the dead and a separate one for prayers and memorial services.
  Comments:
Trimming and fiddling a little.
  Diff:
@@ -14 +14 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">system of having one actual grave for the body and a separate one for the soul</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">having one grave for the body and a separate one for prayers and services</gloss>
3. A* 2023-05-31 05:25:08  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/assets/uploads/2023/05/KJS4-full.pdf
In Nakiri, a double-grave system (ryōbosei 両墓制) was in place from the Edo period
until around the middle of the Meiji period (1868–1912), but as the number of
households increased, the cemetery became too small, ...

https://rekihaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=629&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=41
Conventional folklore study on the grave system has progressed centered on the “double grave system”. The “double grave system” is a term used in opposition to the “single grave system”...
  Comments:
Google of: japanese double grave system 両墓制 
seems to yield adequate results as a gloss.

other notes on 詣り墓.

単墓制 seems to be the less-common historic contrast for single-grave burials.  We don't have this term, but maybe not critical.


Might be worth noting explicitly that the "second grave for the soul" is explicitly to facilitate visitation (as suggested by  詣り墓).  Or not, it's a niche piece of information.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,3 @@
-<gloss>system of having one actual grave for the body and a separate one for the soul</gloss>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
+<gloss>double-grave system</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">system of having one actual grave for the body and a separate one for the soul</gloss>
2. A 2018-12-05 05:14:23  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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