study; library; den; home office; reading room
the ancient imperial princesses serving at the Ise shrine
funeral hall; ceremony site
religious abstinence; purification
purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat
abstinence (in Catholicism)
master of religious ceremonies
dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery; refectory
morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.); food offering at a Buddhist ceremony
priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals
carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)
imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)
Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)