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“Pouring water onto a gravestone” in Japanese

Short answer
灌頂 kanjou かんじょー

Pouring water onto a gravestone in Japanese is “灌頂” (kanjou). Full meaning: baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood; baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism); pouring water onto a gravestone.

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