PRAYER BEADS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily put prayer beads on a joined hands of the dead and to prevent remains of the beads in cremation by forming some of children beads of wood, applying the images of Buddha and/or the names of Buddha to the wooden beads, and forming a string of an expansible member. SOLUTION: For example, prayer beads are constructed of thirteen wooden beads, 1-13, fourteen transparent beads, 14-14, a single parent bead 16, a string 15 connecting these wooden beads and the transparent bead together, a boss 17 connected to the main bead 16, and a tassel 18 hung from the parent bead 16 via the boss 17. The wooden beads 1-13 and the transparent beads 14-14 are children beads to the parent bead 16 and arranged alternately with each other. The string 15 is formed of an expansible member such as rubber, while in the thirteen beads 1-13 among the children beads, different Buddha names and images are carved. In addition to the wooden beads 1-13, all of the transparent beads 14, the parent bead 16, the boss 17, and the tassel 18 are easily burnt, so that cremation can be carried out without any worry because residue of these members hardly remains.