According to Buddhist practice, when a person enters the religion or a follower of Buddhism dies, they are given religious names. In the early modern age, discrimination based on the social stratum was faced even after one's death. Buraku people, who were placed in the lowest class, were given religious names on their gravestones that had connections with slavery or cattle. These discriminatory practices were recently disclosed. This picture shows a gravestone with a discriminatory posthumous name.

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