Coffin

Japanese: 夾紵棺 - きょうちょかん

A coffin made of layers of coarse cloth hardened with lacquer. "Ka" means to overlap, and "tsu" means linen. The kazu coffin at Abuyama Tomb in Nasawara, Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, is 1.97m long, 62cm wide, and 51cm high, and is made of more than 20 layers of coarse cloth, with black lacquer on the outside and vermilion lacquer on the inside. The one at Kengyoshizuka Tomb in Nara Prefecture is a fragment, but it is made of 35 layers of linen cloth, with black lacquer on the outside and vermilion lacquer on the inside. There are also some coffins where only the kazu technique is seen, such as the lining of two stone coffins at Shobuike Tomb in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture. It is thought that kazu coffins were first used in Japan around the second half of the 7th century, but they were already used in China during the Han dynasty, and a kazu coffin was discovered at the Luxiang Tomb in Guchengbao, Yanggao County, Shanxi Province.

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Japanese:

あらい布地を重ね，漆で固めてつくった棺。夾は重ね合せること，紵は麻布を意味する。大阪府高槻市奈佐原の阿武山古墳の夾紵棺は長さ 1.97m，幅 62cm，高さ 51cmで，20枚以上のあらい布を重ね，表面には黒漆が，内面には朱漆が塗られていた。奈良県の牽牛子塚古墳のものは破片であったが，麻布 35枚を重ね，同じく外側に黒漆，内側には朱漆が塗られていた。また，奈良県橿原市の菖蒲池古墳の2個の石棺の内張りのように夾紵の技術のみがみられるものもある。日本で夾紵棺が用いられたのは，7世紀後半頃と考えられるが，中国ではすでに漢代に用いられ，山西省陽高県古城堡魯相墓から夾紵棺が発見されている。

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