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nounced a funeral eulogy at the shrine of the temporary burial-place.
Before this time the Empress had given her dying injunctions to the Ministers, saying:—"Of late years the five grains have not produced well, and there is great famine among the people. Let there be therefore no costly interment[1] by raising (XXII. 42.) for me a misasagi, but let me be buried in the misasagi of the Imperial Prince Takeda.
24th day. The Empress was buried in the misasagi of Prince Takeda.
- ↑ Buddhist influence is traceable in the avoidance of costly forms of burial. It led subsequently to the abolition of misasagi.
