Abstract
There is a great need of the cemetery by the densely inhabitant to the city, the increase of the nuclear family and the aging society in Japan. Then it needs an area of about 4000ha for the cemetery from 1985 to 2000. From a viewpoint of a folklore, the cemetery has to be a permanent residence. But the people who service to the memory of the ancestor are on the decrease by the change of an industrial structure, a moving of the population, a change of the lifestyle, a change to the nuclear family, increasing of single family. So the grave changes to be liquidity, neglected, individual. The cemetery will be a very important factor for the structure of the community.
