The first American President born after World War II brought generations together in a memorial rite that was as much visual as verbal.

The Hōkō-dō is used for memorial rites to ancestors of lay persons, for whom the monks perform services.

It is one of the ancestral memorial rites that have been done for thousand years in Korea.

In front of his tomb stands the jaesil (chamber for memorial rites) with the tablet reading 'Sangsanjae'.

The preparations for memorial rites were the sadder for the fact that there had been so little warning.

The emperor quietly summoned her to the palace when the memorial rites were over, and every day he visited her rooms.

The last time he had been here, for his mother's memorial rite, the burning embers had been extinguished in representation of her lost katra.

Annual memorial rites are held here on the second Sunday of April.

This building is used for prepare the memorial rites.

The Japanese custom of burning incense during memorial rites led to complaints from some Westerners.