| The function of bon toro is similar to that of "sotoba" (a pagoda-shaped wooden tablet set up by a tomb, on which phrases from a sutra or the like are written for the repose of the dead's soul), and bon toro is set up around the grave by the visitor during the season of Obon. |
機能としては卒塔婆に相当するもので、盆の時期に墓参りを行う者がその墓の周囲に立てる。 |