Brick chamber tomb - Senshitsubo

Japanese: 塼室墓 - せんしつぼ

A tomb chamber constructed using bricks when the dead were buried. In China's Central Plains region during the Western Han period, many tomb chambers were constructed using hollow bricks (large bricks made by pasting clay slabs together into a box shape and forming them into the shape of a board or pillar) instead of precious wood. From the mid-Western Han period onwards, the idea of creating underground spaces similar to living rooms above ground became popular, and tomb chamber spaces expanded. Hollow bricks that matched the structure of the tomb chamber, such as triangular ones, appeared, but hollow brick tombs eventually fell out of fashion due to the use of small bricks. Small bricks are rectangular bricks like bricks, and because they make it possible to build high ceilings in the style of a dome or arch, they became widespread throughout China and were used for a long time as a structural material for tombs until the early modern period.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

死者を埋葬するとき，塼を用いて墓室を構築したもの。中国では前漢時代の中原地方で，貴重な木材にかえて空心塼(粘土板を箱形に貼りあわせて板や柱の形につくる大型塼)を組み立てた墓室が多くつくられた。前漢中期以降，地上の居室と同じような空間を地下につくる意図が流行し，墓室の空間が拡張する。三角形など墓室の構造にあわせた空心塼が登場するが，結局小塼の利用によって空心塼墓はすたれる。小塼は煉瓦のような長方塼で，ドーム式やアーチ式の高い天井を築くことが可能であることから，中国全域に普及し，以来近世まで墓の構造材として長く使われた。

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