その他 日本の長寿者

[R.T.]

廣岡しげさんの訃報記事、探しても見つからないと思ったらブログがソースだったんですね。

以下のリンクのブログにかつて掲載されていた様です。（今は閲覧不可）
http://gpwagpwa.ti-da.net/d2011-03-31.html

Yahoo!のWorld's Oldest Peopleグループにその内容が英訳されて報告されていました。参考までに。

"Yesterday I went to the wake of the woman who was the second-oldest in Japan.

Yesterday (the 29th) the wife of the former chief priest of Fukusen-ji passed away at age 113. Fukusen-ji is a temple of the Honganji sect of Shin Buddhism and is located in Showa-chō, Abeno Ward, Osaka City. Although I observe a different sect, it also happens to be my partner's family temple, so I was the only one in attendance who had brought the red rosary of the Kegon sect. At Kagoshiyo's ceremony hall for the vigil, the go-en (which is what the priest is called in Shin Buddhism) of the Osaka Honganji parish (based at Kitamidō) explained that the deceased was the person who, before the war, had given Abeno Ward's former Fukusen-in its status as Fukusen-ji, with its attached "mountain name" (sangō).

It seems that the deceased was the oldest person in Osaka Prefecture and the second-oldest in all Japan, and lived out her latter years in a care facility. I understand that she will have a family interment at Kagoshiyo's ceremony hall rather than use the unrefurbished Fukusen-ji.

Her funeral will be held this morning.

I was surprised that details were not listed in any Osaka newspapers.

Upon looking at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's list of Japan's oldest people, I discovered that this was because publication of her name had been suppressed.

I pray again for the deceased's happiness in the next world."

わざわざありがとうございます。