noun:

• temple (Buddhist)

noun:

• temple

noun:

• temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

noun:

• temples and shrines

noun:

• banker's cut or fee charged in a gambling saloon

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith ➜ 寺請制度

noun:

• ritual visits to a temple

noun:

• temple's name

noun:

• temple grounds - obscure term

noun / ~の noun:

• in a temple; inside temple grounds
• sub-temple

suffix / counter:

• counter for temples

noun:

• temple affairs
• temple administrator; person in charge of temple affairs - archaism

noun:

• governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines

noun:

• inside a temple

noun:

• child who attended a temple school - abbreviation ➜ 寺子屋

noun:

• status of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

• office of a temple

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• certification issued by a temple to prove affiliation

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

noun:

• temple's territory; temple's estate

noun:

• male temple employee (esp. one who does odd jobs)

noun:

• system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith