However, in the Edo period the practice was changed into the form of carrying a dead body into the Tokai-bune to be buried at sea (the case with a chief priest of Darakusan-ji Temple is known).
ただし江戸時代には、既に死んでいる人物の遺体（陀落山寺の住職の事例が知られている）を渡海船に乗せて水葬で葬るという形に変化する。