What are the cylinders in front of the Buddha statue at Nanzō-in Temple, Japan?

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The urns are numbered.

The Many Faces of Fukuoka’s Nanzoin Temple says,

There are 365 urns in front of the Buddha. Visitors travel long distances to place messages to their dearly departed loved ones in the urn marked with the day they died.

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