魚ぎょ板ばん

noun

wooden fish-shaped gong; temple block

A large flat wooden plank carved in the shape of a fish, used in Buddhist temples as a gong to signal the time of day or to call monks to meals and services.

• 朝あさの勤ごん行ぎょうの前まえに、僧そうが魚ぎょ板ばんを打うち鳴ならした。

  Before the morning service, the monk struck the wooden fish gong.