noun
A thin wooden board placed at graves or memorial sites in Japanese Buddhist practice, often inscribed with a posthumous name or sutra. Also called 卒塔婆 (sotoba).
See also: 卒塔婆
お墓の後ろに板塔婆が立てられている。
A wooden grave tablet is set up behind the grave.
Compound of 板 (ita, 'board') and 塔婆 (tōba, 'stupa'), itself from the Sanskrit 'stūpa' via Chinese. The term refers to a wooden memorial tablet shaped like a miniature stupa.