Repairing Buddhist Belongings of Tsunami Survivors [Buddhism & Waste 4/4]

Tsuzuki-san repaired memorial tablets (ihai) and household altars destroyed by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. Here he shares what he learned through this experience. He also asks how we as humans relate to these objects, whether they can be adequalte be described as "things."
Suggested Reading:
McLaughlin, Levi, Philip Fountain et al. (eds.) (2016): Salvage and Salvation: Religion and Disaster Relief in Asia. Asian Ethnology 75(1).
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Mullins, Mark, and Koichi Nakano (eds.) (2016): Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan. Palgrave Macmillan.
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