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carissa

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Hello,

I walked through my local cemetery earlier this week and found some stones completely in Japanese with lots of kanji. Some of them are exceptionally worn down.

I have hosted the photos on my server. Where there is an "a" between the numbers and the ".jpg" it is my attempt to make the writing more legible by playing with contrast and color in Photoshop.

Any help you can give me would be appreciated. I would like to put the stone images on findagrave.com and include names and dates if possible.

The directory of images is here: Index of /Headstones

Thank you for your time and any help you are able to provide,

Carissa
 
0758
大正元年十一月二十八日没
釋尼妙厳
俗名近藤いと三十六才
Died on November 28, 1912
Shakuni Myōgen
(Buddhist name)
Secular name Kondō Ito 36 years old

0759/0760
廣島縣安佐郡川内村大字?甘
?? Kawauchi Village, Asa District, Hiroshima Prefecture (present Asa-minami Ward, Hiroshima City)

0768
青木菊太郎之墓
Grave of Aoki Kikutarō

0770
明治四十三年十一月七日亡
行年五十一才
Died on November 7, 1910
51 years old


0771
釋正順信士
Shaku Seijun Shinji (Buddhist name)

0777
大正三年七月二十日没
行年三十四
Died on July 20, 1914
34 years old


0780
釋了諦 福澤小???(my wild guess is 右衛門)
Shaku Ryōtei (Buddhist name) Fukuzawa Koemon? (Secular name)

0781
大正四年十二月十(日?)亡
Died on December 10?, 1915

0782
岡山縣上房郡上水田村
釋明教信士 故(北?)川?蔵之墓
行年三拾(三 or 五)才
明治??????
Kami-mizuta Village, Jōbō District, Okayama Prefecture (present Maniwa City)
Shaku Myōkyō (or Meikyō) Shinji (Buddhist name) Grave of Kitagawa ?? (Secular name)
33 (or 35) years old

The title Shaku(male form) / Shakuni(female form) at the top of their Buddhist names shows that they belonged to Jōdo Shinshū Ōtani-ha.
 
Thank you very much for your reply. So I don't get it completely messed up can you bold or color the family name/surname which has been romanized?
 
0758
Kondō(family name) Ito(female given name)

0768
Aoki Kikutarō(male given name)

0780
Fukuzawa Koemon?

0782
Kitagawa? ?(probably ~zō)

The given name in 0780 and the family name in 0782 are uncertain.
 
Hello,

I visited my local cemetery today and found many headstones in what I believe are Japanese. It's a lot of kanji writing. There were several Japanese headstones with the names written in Latin characters beside. Some might be Chinese... due to the large amount of kanji I can't quite tell which are which.

Can I get some assistance in translating/transliterating?

Anything with an "a" before the ".jpg" is my attempt to bring better contrast to the image. The images are at the following location:

Index of /Headstones
 
Well, that's too many... Here's from the first 6 pictures.

5717
廣島縣人大正九年一月八日二三才
西初雄之墓
From Hiroshima Prefecture, Junuary 8, 1920, 23 years old
Grave of Nishi Hatsuo


大正十五年九月十四日亡行年八才
西綾子之墓
Died on September 14, 1926, 8 years old
Grave of Nishi Ayako


滋賀縣人大正十一年三月十二日二三才
西口光雄之墓
From Shiga Prefecture, March 12, 1922, 23 years old
Grave of Nishiguchi Mitsuo


5720
長谷部登之墓
Grave of Hasebe Noboru

5721
大正十三年七月十六日亡
Died on July 16, 1924

5723
滋賀縣愛知郡葉枝見村字新海
釋清願 故堂ケ崎瀧次郎
大正十三年三月九日亡行年?一才
Singai, Haemi Village, Aichi District, Shiga Prefecture
Shaku Seigan
(Buddhist name) Dōgasaki(or Dōgazaki) Takijirō(Secular name)
Died on March 9, 1924, ?1 years old

5725
滋賀縣東浅井郡虎姫村
太田榮藏之墓
大正十二年一月三日亡
行年卅八
Torahime Village, Higashi-Azai District, Shiga Prefecture
Grave of Ōta Eizō
Died on January 3, 1923
38 years old
 
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