A funeral in Japanese style

15th of August became another Memorial Day for my family, in addition to the end of the Pacific War.

My mother passed away on the 15th of August after two month long coma.
On 18th, we had a funeral ceremony in a multi-purpose hall, and this picture shows the altar decorated with many flowers for my mother.

This is Buddhism style ceremony.

What we do in the ceremony is that the priest recites the Buddhist scriptures and while scriptures are recited, the attendees burn incense for the repose of a departed spirit.
After this ceremony, we burn the dead body at a crematorium.

After the cremation, the relatives get together and have some banquet to finish the period of mourning; we are allowed to have meat and fish.

For seven weeks after she passed away, we worship the burned bones of the deceased at home on a decorated tentative altar at home.  The right side is the formal alter for the ancestors and she will join there after burying  the burned bones seven weeks later.

May peace be with her.