At the same time, there is a custom to place segakidana (rack for carrying the dead), gakidana (shelf for holding a deceased person) or Shoryoma (conveyance for the spirits of the deceased) for hungry ghosts who are wandering in this world as muen botoke (a person who died leaving nobody to look after his (her) grave).
それと同時に、無縁仏となり、成仏できずに俗世をさまよう餓鬼にも施餓鬼棚（せがきだな）、餓鬼棚（がきだな）や精霊馬（しょうりょううま）を設ける風習がある。