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
A wooden grave tablet is set up behind the grave.
From 板, “board,” and 塔婆, a shortened form of 卒塔婆, the Buddhist name for a memorial monument transmitted through Chinese.