01192nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001600043700002300059245008200082300001200164490000700176520084900183022001401032                                       d1 aAlexandra y1 aAndre Ramos Soares00aDomestic oratories: Memory places for Japanese immigrants in Santa Maria / RS  a179-2000 v133 aThis study aims to present what is Butsudan, as a place of memory and intangible heritage of a group of Japanese immigrants living in Santa Maria, where today resides fourteen of the 25 families who came to the city in 1958. It was the first immigration regulated by Rio Grande do Sul, which makes the oratory even more important for the group in order to keep alive the memory of the homeland and their descendants. It is an intimate space of the house serves as a place to relive the memory of the ancestors, the country of origin and the transience of life, is an oratory where they make offerings and worship of ancestors. A Butsudan is a wooden cabinet with openings that enclose and enshrine a religious icon, a sculpture or painting of a Buddha. They are domestic altars, family or intimate worship, widespread among Japanese immigrants.  a1808-1967