先せん祖ぞの位い牌はい

noun

ancestral tablet; memorial tablet for ancestors

A Buddhist memorial tablet inscribed with the posthumous name of an ancestor, kept on the family altar (仏壇) and venerated.

• お盆ぼんには先せん祖ぞの位い牌はいに手てを合あわせる。

  During Obon, we put our hands together in prayer before the ancestral tablets.