Coffin - Hide

Japanese: 槨 - かく
Coffin - Hide

Burial facility of an ancient tomb. Originally, it referred to a wooden outer box that surrounds the coffin in order to prevent the coffin from touching the soil directly. It is clear that coffins and coffins coexisted in China, but the section on the Eastern Barbarians in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, states that "they died with no coffin, but no coffin," indicating that the Chinese-style coffin does not exist in Japan's burial system. There was a debate between Kita Sadakichi and Takahashi Kenji from 1914 (Taisho 3) to 1916 about the meaning of the characters coffin and coffin, but in Japan, the words are used to refer to the part of the burial facility of an ancient tomb that wraps the wooden coffin, such as clay coffin, charcoal coffin, and gravel coffin.

[Tetsuzo Kubo]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

古墳の埋葬施設。本来は遺骸(いがい)を納める棺が直接土に触れぬように棺の周りを囲む木の外箱をさす。中国では棺と槨が共存したことが明らかであるが、『三国志』魏書東夷伝倭人(ぎしょとういでんわじん)条には、「其死有棺無槨」と中国風の槨がわが国の墓制にないことを記している。この槨と棺の字義については、1914年(大正3)から16年にかけて喜田貞吉(きたさだきち)と高橋健自(けんじ)の間で論争があったが、日本では、粘土槨、木炭槨、礫(れき)槨などのように、古墳の埋葬施設で木棺をくるむ部分をさす語として使われている。

[久保哲三]

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