"Grave visit agency service" Corona Evil Bon Festival Successive requests Tottori August 10, 13:54
With the spread of new coronavirus infections and the movement to refrain from returning home to Obon spread, in Tottori prefecture, we are continuously receiving requests for services to clean graves and visit them.
This agent service has been conducted by a stone store in Tottori City, which handles tombstones, for about 10 years due to depopulation and aging.
This is because the number of people who are refusing to go home due to the influence of the new coronavirus is increasing, so the number of requests is about 30% more than usual, and there are already more than 60 requests.
On the 10th, at the request of a woman in Aichi Prefecture, who had canceled her homecoming due to the spread of infection, an employee cleaned the grave and brushed the gravestone with a brush.
At the stone shop, about 60 of the requests were completed by 11th, and on the 12th, flowers were provided and incense was raised to visit the grave on behalf of them, and the photos were sent to the client.
Mr. Koji Kumagai, who worked at the Ishino Stone Works, said, "In spite of difficult circumstances, I would like to cooperate with the desire to offer memorial service to my ancestors."