早はや桶おけ

noun

roughly made casket; quickly made coffin

Historical term for a simple, hastily constructed coffin, often used in times of epidemic or war when proper funerary arrangements were not possible.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいのコレラ流りゅう行こう時じには、早はや桶おけが多おおく使つかわれたという。

  During the cholera epidemics of the Edo period, roughly made caskets were reportedly used in large numbers.