Apparently, around here people use coins for those who have passed away recently, and the shells for older ancestors (or so my dad tells me). "Shells" are my own translation--I tried looking up 筊, but somehow "divination block" doesn't seem very descriptive :-)
I also burned a whole lotta "money" for the dead--the shrine I went to had fairly large furnaces.
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I also burned a whole lotta "money" for the dead--the shrine I went to had fairly large furnaces.