卒塔婆 板塔婆
A long, thin wooden grave marker, often inscribed with sutras. They also can be found next to [[tombstone]]s in [[graveyard]]s.

h4. Examples

* !post #891738
* !post #1799258
* !post #4454012

h4. External links

* "Haiku Topics Blogspot: Grave marker (sotoba)":https://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/grave-marker-sotoba.html
* "Wikipedia (JP): Itatōba":https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/板塔婆
* "Wikipedia: Japanese pagoda, Sotōba":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pagoda#Sotōba
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