I attended My grandmother's rite of encoffinment.
I saw the rite of encoffinment in the movie, "Departures", but it was my first time to actually attend the ceremony.
The professional staffs skillfully put clothes on my grandmother just like in the movie. I was very impressed to see the ritual before the rite of encoffinment.
Her body was washed in the bathtub with hot water. This was "Yukan nogi".
This is one of the many rituals to send off the spirit to the after life.
The meaning is to cleanse the dirt of the temporal and to heal their heart.
Professional staffs of the funeral company advanced the ceremony.
Our family watched and sometimes assisted them.
My grandmother's body was washed with hot water and soap and her hair with shampoo and conditioner.
After washing her face, they put on lotion and makeup on her face.
The staff asked us. How to blow dry her hair, and how to part her hair?
They kept her appearance just as the way she was in her lifetime.
For a long time she stayed at the hospital. Certainly she must have wanted to take a bath.
After the ceremony. I saw my grandmother looked comfortable.
