In Japanese folklore since Kunio Yanagita, there is an established theory "the dead person who passed through last anniversary memorial service loses personality, and to become ancestors". However, in Yuza town, praying for the repose of souls is continued after last anniversary memorial service.  This does not apply to an established theory that personality of a dead person is lost. Concept of the soul affects many shares in this memory about dead person. In Yuza town, it is particularly afraid of a dead person immediately on death, and  a difference of measures to the stable soul that passed posthumously for several years is seen everywhere. There are a soul of a stable dead person and aliving person in close relation,  which makes various memories about dead person. ln late years, the spread of a photograph and video technology advances, and there  is a trial to print a history and history of each family in making of an area magazine. By this study,  memory about a dead person in Yuza town is contemplated along with out look on soul which became the base, and introducing variable memory about dead person.

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