土壇

どだん

Meanings

1. Noun dirt mound
2. dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
3. platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

Kanji

• 土 soil. Read as ド.
• 壇 dais. Read as ダン.

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists