lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
meat eating; eating of meat; meat diet; carnivorous
food and drink; eating and drinking
eating strange food; eating bizarre things; simple diet; plain food; eating meat (thus breaking Buddhist rules)
one meal; one meal (a day)
two meals; (eating) two meals a day
simple diet; plain food; simple food; frugal meal
stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system)
meat and matrimony (Buddhism); Buddhist priest eating meat dishes and being married
announcing meals (at a Zen monastery); meal announcer; noh mask resembling a young attendant who announces mealtimes in a Zen monastery
actors; players; (lit.) riverbank beggars
holy men who abstain from meat and cooked food
mercenary spirit; greed; avarice; base nature
beggars at the Ise Grand Shrine; (arch.) successful but stingy merchants from Ise
morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.); food offering at a Buddhist ceremony
slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping
egg-shaped glutinous rice ball (Heian, Kamakura periods); tray or container for serving rice balls
month of fasting; Ramadan
dining hall (at a temple)
person turned into a beggar overnight
resting after a meal is sacrosanct; (lit.) even if your parents have just died, take a rest after your meal
taishiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
once a beggar, always a beggar; (lit.) if one begs for three days, one cannot stop
not using makeup to allow one's skin to heal
merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites); (lit.) robbers from Ōmi, beggars from Ise