手て元もと供く養よう

noun

keeping ashes at home; memorial keepsake with ashes

Refers to the practice of keeping a portion of a deceased person's cremated remains in a small container, pendant, or miniature urn at home, rather than interring all ashes in a family grave. Common in modern memorial practices.

• 最さい近きんは、遺い骨こつの一いち部ぶを手て元もと供く養ようとして自じ宅たくに置おく人ひとが増ふえている。

  Recently, more people are keeping a portion of the ashes at home as a memorial keepsake.

• 母ははの遺い骨こつを小ちいさなペンダントに入いれて、手て元もと供く養ようにしている。

  I put some of my mother's ashes in a small pendant as a way to keep her close.