help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)
to accumulate merit; to make merit
in good health; alive and well; going strong
age of the copied law (one of the three ages of Buddhism); middle day of the law; age of semblance dharma
making Buddhist images, implements, etc.
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
spread (e.g. of a disease); rampancy; infestation; proliferation; being widespread
arrival; coming (e.g. something awaited); advent
Maitreya (Bodhisattva); Miroku
eschatology; doomsday theory; apocalypticism
dissolute priest; depraved monk; ferocious warrior monk
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely
rebirth in paradise; peaceful death
Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha
enshrinement hall (of a buddha); temple; cathedral (esp. Catholic)
to bow; to worship; to receive; to see
the kalpa of destruction (the third aeon of the universe)
the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe)
the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe)
the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe)
exceedingly; extremely; very many; indeed
Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus); Temminck's cormorant
to take; to catch; to capture
cormorant fishing; cormorant fisherman
Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice
white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae); Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
Japanese robin (Erithacus akahige)
(large) parrot (incl. the cockatoo)
Bengalese finch; society finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica)
Tokugawa Ieharu (1737-1786), Shougun 1760-1786
Nansou Satomi Hakkenden (Eight Dog Chronicles, novel 1842)
swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy
cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)