![Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?). | Wellcome Collection Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?). | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0046665/full/full/0/default.jpg)
Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?). | Wellcome Collection
Do chopsticks sticking straight up always symbolize death in Japan, or only when standing up in rice? - Quora
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Don't Put Chopsticks In Your Hair: Japanese Manners: Things that will make Japanese people gasp, or look at you funny
![Nick Kapur on Twitter: "2. Tsukitatebashi 突き立て箸 ("piercing standing chopsticks"), or just tatebashi 立て箸 ("standing chopsticks") for short Don't stab your chopsticks into your bowl of rice so they stand upright (this Nick Kapur on Twitter: "2. Tsukitatebashi 突き立て箸 ("piercing standing chopsticks"), or just tatebashi 立て箸 ("standing chopsticks") for short Don't stab your chopsticks into your bowl of rice so they stand upright (this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq7tJYjXIAEnIr2.jpg)