厨ず子し甕がめ

noun

decorated pottery container for ancestral bones (Okinawa)

A traditional Okinawan funerary urn, often ornately decorated, used to store the cleaned bones of ancestors after a secondary burial. In Okinawa, it is also called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み.

See also: 厨子

• 沖おき縄なわでは、洗せん骨こつの後のち、先せん祖ぞの骨ほねを厨ず子し甕がめに納おさめる風ふう習しゅうがある。

  In Okinawa, there is a custom of placing the bones of ancestors into a zushigame after the bone-washing ceremony.