When a deceased person is cremated, no-ihai will be taken home and enshrined on a chuin-dan (a temporary home altar to enshrine the ashes until the memorial service on the forty-ninth day after the death and the interment ceremony).
火葬の場合は、葬儀後家に持ち帰り、中陰壇（四十九日の法要および納骨式まで遺骨を祀る臨時の屋内祭壇。）に祀られる。