niche or alcove for an image ②(in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard

Buddhist altar light

niche (in Western architecture)

ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism)

Buddha figure carved into a rock ②Buddha figure in a cabinet

place to store a body in a coffin before burial (Okinawa)