I left home in the morning with the intention of finding the graves of soldiers who died in the Boshin War, mourning their souls, and investigating the graves.
The cemetery I will be investigating today is located in a small communal cemetery that contains the graves of local residents.
As soon as I arrived at the cemetery, I started looking for the grave I was looking for. However, I couldn’t find it easily. I walked back and forth many times in the not so large cemetery.
Today, the Obon festival has passed and it is near the end of August, but the temperature was 33°C and the sun was shining brightly, making it a very hot day. It was unfortunate that I could not find the grave I was looking for, but I decided to stop searching because I was worried about my health.
At the communal cemetery, I asked an elderly local woman and a middle-aged man who had come to visit his grave where the soldiers’ grave was. Neither of them knew about the soldier’s grave that I was looking for.
It was unfortunate that I was unable to find the grave I was looking for, but actually visiting and investigating the site was a very meaningful experience for me.