How to offer incense

How to offer incense at the funeral in Japan


When it's your turn to offer incense, stand up and go to to the urn placed in front of the altar.

Stand at attention, put your hands together with the rosary around them, and bow.

Take a pinch of incense from the container next to the urn, bring it close to your forehead, and then place it on the smoldering incense in the urn.

Repeat this process three times.

Stand at attention again, bow and return to your seat.