Japan is celebrating the feast of the obon lately, a Buddhist festival where the spirits of the dead returned to make a stop in a circle of relatives. Other people would usually return to their places of origin to stop at their relatives and clean the graves of their ancestors to honor the deceased. However, due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, many other people travel. In addition, Japan’s summer heat makes it difficult, even for locals, to stop at the family grave circle.
Today, some creative corporations in Japan have brought a touch of high-tech to the annual culture, providing remote control to the cemetery, with a professional cleanup of graves and supplies and prayers on its behalf.
The company Kano Sekizai, founded in Hiroshima, for example, teaches a popular course starting at 20,000 euros, which includes a one-hour tomb cleaning, as well as a video tour through Zoom, in which corporate staff will deposit flowers in offerings on the tomb. . – Incense and candles can be added for an additional fee. The procedure is streamed live, so you can stick to every step in real time from the comfort of your home. You’ll even get a letter with images and evidence from the end of the scale in – best for all members of the circle of relatives with technological difficulties.
Launched this month, Zenyuseki is an organization of three hundred quarry companies across Japan that take the excursion to the virtual tomb to another level, turning the whole procedure into a virtual real experience. A professional visits the tomb and records cleaning and offerings of flowers and incense with a 360-degree camera. The video will then be sent to you by email or on social media, while the virtual truth glasses are sent to your home. All you have to do is put on the VIRTUAL reality viewer and you’ll be able to see the scene as if it were there. The experiment begins at 25,000 yen, adding flowers and incense wands.
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