うちは代々この寺の檀家です。
Our family has belonged to this temple for generations.
過疎化で檀家が減り、寺の維持が難しくなっている。
With depopulation, the temple has lost parishioners and is struggling to keep going.
住職は檀家を一軒ずつ回ってお盆の読経をした。
The head priest went from one parishioner household to the next, chanting sutras for Obon.