Table 2. Income of the Festival

Title

(Yuan Shau) #T

A B

Contribution (yen)

Total (yen)

Special

150,000

150,000

Principal

1

110,000

110,000

Vice

12

100,000

1,200,000

Tu

151

16

50,000

800,000

26

30,000

780,000

37

20,000

740,000

92

10,000

920,000

112

5,000

560,000

40

3,000

120,000

1

2,500

2,500

108

2,000

216,000

1,500

1,500

96

1,000

96,000

Total

165

543

5,696,000

* A: number of names listed in the Yellow-book

* B: number of names listed on a red paper pasted on the wall

A B

F

* note:

Informants said that A was the P'ang (†) and B was Kifu ( Japanese term means donation)

= Jap-

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# The A class Ming-che was 470,000 yen, B class was 350,000, and C class was 200,000. In addition, each of the Gold, silver, cloth, and coin hills ( · Mil ki - l) was 25,000 yen. In the case of Kyoto, the prices were: a) gold or silver hills (full): 5,000 yen, b) rice (16): 3,000 yen, c) 10 kinds of vegetarian food (FM): 3,000 yen, d) Gold or silver (paper money) ( IN ): 3,000 yen, e) paper-made gold bar ( CW ): 700 yen, f) Japanese type incense sticks (#); 800 yen, g) paper money ( 24 ); 200 yen, small candle (one) (--); 200 yen, h) Chinese incense sticks ( f ); 500 yen.

@ Moreover there were 266 paper tablets presented in the 'Ancestral Hall', each tablet costing 3,500 yen. Thus, the total income from the tablets was 931,000 yen.

=

Second World War, he and three of his brothers married and live separately but they have only one Cho-sin-pai-lau (i ★m in Cantonese altar of the ancestor) in his mother's house. And in the festival the family presented only one paper tablet. One committee member told me that all Chinese ethnic groups living in Kobe came to the festival but those who came from other Prefectures were mostly Hokkienese. There were three groups of non-Kobe worshippers:

i) They were Hokkienese or they had affinal relationship with the Hokkienese in Kobe. For example the man from

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