My Years as a Coffin Maker

Coffin makers, corpse drivers, corpse stitchers, paper effigy makers, corpse collectors, executioners, yin-yang masters, and coroners are known as the Eight Yin Trades.

The Eight Yin Trades deal with the dead, and in folk legends they are also called the Eight Yin Gates.

There's a saying: "Nine out of ten trades are hard to deal with, but ghosts never bother the Eight Trades. Better to make the King of Hell weep than anger one of the Eight Trades." That's what the Eight Yin Trades are all about!

And the most mysterious of them all are the coffin makers. After my grandfather died, I became the last coffin maker in the world...