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CHOI CHI CHEUNG
Gunma Prefecture and the Shikoku group mentioned above.
ii) When they or their parents first emigrated to Japan they first stopped at Kobe. Some of them even chose the Kobe Chinese Cemetery as their final resting place (see below).
iii) They have a special relationship with the 'Newly Dead' and/or a family with a ‘Newly Dead' (see case IV below). By the time of the festival there were a total of 13 ‘Newly Deads' (Shinn-bon or Hattsu-bon in Japanese), four of them did not live in Kobe: (Table 3).
Case I: Hokkienese who lived in Himeji, brother of Case VI who lived in Kobe.
Case II: Hokkienese who lived in Yokohama. He lived in Kobe for five years when he first came to Japan. Before he died, he chose to be buried in Kobe.
Case IV: Cantonese who lived in Yokohama. She was a house servant and her boss was also a Cantonese. She did not marry and had no family. However, she had relatives living in Kobe. She was buried in Kobe.
Case IX: Cantonese from Yokohama. His wife, a Cantonese, was born and lived in Kobe before she married. She called herself a Kobe woman (A) and her husband a Yokohama man (A).
Some of the Cantonese told me that in the past the Cantonese were in charge of the festival. The reason they passed the charge of the festival into the hands of the Hokkienese is because the latter are more cooperative and consolidated, and, nowadays only the Hokkienese know how to make paper figures and the Ming-che." However, during the festival, the Cantonese paid more attention to the religious activities, but the Hokkienese were more active in social functions.
The committee was made up of voluntary Hokkienese, and
238
CHOI CHI CHEUNG
Gunma Prefecture and the Shikoku group mentioned above.
ii) When they or their parents first emigrated to Japan they first stopped at Kobe. Some of them even chose the Kobe Chinese Cemetary as their final resting place (see below).
iii) They have a special relationship with the 'Newly Dead' and/or a family with a ‘Newly Dead' (see case IV below). By the time of the festival there were a total of 13 ‘Newly Deads' (Shinn-bon or Hattsu-bon in Japa- nese), four of them did not live in Kobe: (Table 3).
Case I: Hokkienese who lived in Himeji, brother of Case VI who lived in Kobe.
Case II: Hokkienese who lived in Yokohama. He lived in Kobe for five years when he first came to Japan. Before he died, he chose to be buried in Kobe.
Case IV: Cantonese who lived in Yokohama. She was a house servant and her boss was also a Cantonese. She did not marry and had no family. However, she had relatives living in Kobe. She was buried in Kobe.
Case IX: Cantonese from Yokohama. His wife, a Canton- ese, was born and lived in Kobe before she married. She called herself a Kobe woman (A) and her husband a Yokohama man ( A ).
Some of the Cantonese told me that in the past the Cantonese were in charge of the festival. The reason they passed the charge of the festival into the hands of the Hokkienese is because the latter are more cooperative and consolidated, and, nowadays only the Hokkienese know how to make paper figures and the Ming-che." However, during the festival, the Cantonese paid more attention to the religious activities, but the Hokkienese were more active in social functions.
The committee was made up of voluntary Hokkienese, and
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