Ubasute

Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate place, and left there to die.^[1] Kunio Yanagita concluded that the ubasute folklore comes from India's Buddhist mythology.^[2] According to the Kodansha Illustrated Encyclopedia of Japan, ubasute "is the subject of legend, but…does not seem ever to have been a common custom."^[3]

^ Hoffman, Michael (September 12, 2010). "Aging through the ages". The Japan Times. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
^ Kunio, Yanagita (1991). Tōno Monogatari (遠野物語). Vol. 264. Japan: Shueisha. ISBN 978-4087520194.
^ Japan, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993, p. 1121.

[1] Hoffman, Michael (September 12, 2010). "Aging through the ages". The Japan Times. Retrieved 19 August 2016.

[2] Kunio, Yanagita (1991). Tōno Monogatari (遠野物語). Vol. 264. Japan: Shueisha. ISBN 978-4087520194.

[Encycl-3] Japan, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993, p. 1121.

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