Translation guide
Refers to the location where a death sentence is carried out. In Japanese, this is typically expressed with specific terms for execution grounds or chambers, with distinctions between historical and modern contexts.
The physical location where executions occur, often historical or formal.
General term for an execution ground or site, often used for historical contexts.
その処刑場は今は公園になっている。
That place of execution is now a park.
A more formal or literary term for an execution ground, often used in legal or historical texts.
刑場の跡地には石碑が建てられた。
A monument was erected on the site of the former place of execution.
Specifically the room where executions are carried out in a prison, as in contemporary Japan.
The official term for the execution chamber in Japanese prisons.
死刑執行室の内部は公開されていない。
The interior of the execution chamber is not open to the public.
A less common term for execution chamber, sometimes used in news reports.
死刑場には絞首台がある。
There is a gallows in the execution chamber.
Famous historical sites where executions were carried out, often with specific names.
Refers to the remains or historical site of an execution ground.
この刑場跡は観光名所になっている。
This former place of execution has become a tourist attraction.
An Edo-period term for an execution ground, often used in historical dramas.
仕置場で罪人が処刑された。
The criminal was executed at the place of execution.
処刑場 is a broad term for any execution site, often historical, while 死刑執行室 specifically refers to the modern execution chamber inside a prison.