供養塔

くようとう

memorial tower

針供養

はりくよう

memorial service for old needles

供養塚

くようづか くようつか

unknown person's grave

花供養

はなくよう

commemoration of the Buddha's birthday

水子供養

みずごくよう みずこくよう

memorial service to appease an aborted foetus

追善供養

ついぜんくよう

memorial service

永代供養

えいたいくよう

services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul

開眼供養

かいげんくよう

ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)

手元供養

てもとくよう

keeping (part of) a person's ashes in one's home or inside a pendant, etc.

供

とも

companion, follower, attendant, retinue

供進

ぐしん ともすすむ

giving offerings

僧供

そうぐ

giving to a monk, offerings made to monks

供花

きょうか くげ くうげ

offering of flowers (at shrine, grave, etc.), floral tribute

供僧

ぐそう

monk who attends to the principal image of a temple

供御

くご ぐご くぎょ

emperor's meal

供祭

ぐさい きょうさい

offerings, offerings and worship

供血

きょうけつ

donation of blood

供米

きょうまい くまい

rice offered to a god

供奉

ぐぶ

accompanying, being in attendance on