Q: How do you pay your respects to the ancestors without burning down the house?
A: Plug in a stick of electronic incense, of course!
The fear of fire still runs strong in Japan, because within living memory, everyone still lived in houses built of wood and paper. Incense burning before the ancestral name tablets was often a culprit. Which is why you can now offer your prayers before an electronic urn fitted out with an orange LED and pay your respects with a light-conducting “stick of incense”!
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