Eien era (987.4.5-989.8.8)
Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses)
dining table; (arch.) cooked rice
to have a terrible time; to have a hard time
to put one's life on the line
Bishū (the three former provinces of Bizen, Bitchū and Bingo)
main; principal; chief; primary; major
marriage; marriage tie; love knot
reed tripe; beef abomasum
book tripe; bible tripe; leaf tripe; beef omasum; cow omasum; cow psalterium
Honganji sect (of Shin Buddhism)
Tenryaku era (947.4.22-957.10.27)
inspection; audit; judgement; judgment
panacea; elixir (of life)
Emperor Ichijou; Ichijou Tenno (980-1011 CE, reigning: 986-1011 CE)
Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788)
Suzuki Daisetsu (1870-1966)
sasumata; man catcher; two-pronged weapon for catching criminals
image (esp. of a deity, buddha, royal, noble, etc.)
beehive; hive; something full of holes; (fig.) Swiss cheese; honeycomb tripe; wall of a cow's second stomach
Gunsho Ruiju (collection of Japanese classics sorted by type; orig. ed. 1819; comp. ed. 1911)
A Study of Good (1911 philosophical treatise by Kitarō Nishida)
I'm not so sure; I can hardly say with any finality that ...
Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Kanjaku
(treating) equally; without discrimination; impartially; alike; in the same way
noninterference; nonintervention
contending for victory; struggling for supremacy
horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell
foundation of a temple; laying a foundation (stone); open base
Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435-1490)
skim reading; skipping through text