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Ritual
The "tamaya" is placed in an inner chamber, on a shelf, the "mitama-san-no-tana," attached to the wall about six feet high. It is placed lower than the "kamidana".
Rites are performed for the "tamaya" every tenth day up to the fiftieth, and thereafter on the one-hundredth day and one-year anniversary. The one-year ritual is followed by another which marks the spirit's joining of the ancestors at the family shrine.cite encyclopedia|url=http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1054|title=Shinsōsai (Shinto Funeral Rites)|last=Motegi|first=Sadazumi|date=
24 February ,2007 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Shinto|publisher=Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University|accessdate=2007-08-09]History
The first "tamaya" was built in 1599 in the
Toyokuni Shrine inKyoto forToyotomi Hideyoshi . Screen paintings and its ruins suggest that it was modeled after theKitano Tenman-gū . It was later destroyed by the Tokugawa. [cite web|title=reibyou 霊廟|publisher=Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System|date=2001|accessdate=2007-08-09|url= http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/r/reibyou.htm]Later the "tamaya" was generally established for Japanese nobles, military heroes, and other people with high reputation. This practice spread in the
Edo period . During the "Kokugaku " movement it became more common to erect "tamaya" in ordinary homes. [cite encyclopedia|url=http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=287|title=Mitamaya|last=Okada|first=Yoshiyuki|date=2 June ,2005 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Shinto|publisher=Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University|accessdate=2007-08-09] It formed a central part of the Shinto funeral rituals (神葬祭, shinsōsai).References
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