In witness of being a parishioner of a certain temple, each family became accustomed to install a household butsudan to worship every morning and evening and to invite a priest of its bodaiji temple to hold memorial services to commemorate anniversaries of their ancestors' death dates.
その証として各戸ごとに仏壇を設け、朝・夕礼拝し、先祖の命日には僧侶を招き供養するという習慣が確立した。