2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
On Nujihwa of Juta and a Death of Patient in Okinawa
| Project/Area Number |
16520024
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | University of the Ryukyus |
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Principal Investigator |
HAMASAKI Moriyasu University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Law and Letters, Professor, 法文学部, 教授 (30208574)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | Nujihwa / Yuta / Okinawan folk belief / hospice-palliative care / grief care / spiritual care / thanatology |
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| Research Abstract |
In the Okinawan indigenous religion, such as seen in Yuta(Okinawan shaman), they say that mabui(spirit) of the dead is sometimes left in the sickroom, when people died in a hospital. Nujihwa is a rite to lead the restless spirit to the Guso(the hereafter). A Yuta I interviewed told that she conducted Nujihwa with using flat incenses and San(Japanese pampers grass), pulling the mabui of the dead from four corners, and put them on the chest of the body. And they bear it out to cremate, and finally to a grave.
They conduct Nujihwa for a peace of the dead, but it also is, to the bereaved, a grief care and spiritual care, because the bereaved find solace in it. A grief care and a spiritual care are very important in hospice-palliative care. Nujihwa, therefore, should be allowed to do to those bereaved who want to do it. But it sometimes makes nuisances to other patients and the hospital, when conducted in troublesome way. It, therefore, is desirable to conduct Nujihwa so long as it does not trouble others.
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Research Products
(6 results)
