木もっ簡かん

noun

wooden strip; mokkan; wooden tablet

Historical term for narrow wooden slips used for writing in ancient East Asia, often bound together. Compare 竹簡 (bamboo strips).

See also: 竹簡

• 奈な良ら時じ代だいの木もっ簡かんが遺い跡せきから出しゅつ土どした。

  Wooden strips from the Nara period were excavated from the ruins.

• 木もっ簡かんには当とう時じの税ぜいの記き録ろくが墨すみで書かかれていた。

  Tax records of the time were written in ink on the wooden tablets.