incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment 寺入り [てらいり] /(n) (1) to enrol in a temple school/child enrolled in a temple school/(2) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)/(3) to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)/ ------- 寺預け [てらあずけ] /(n) (obsc) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)/ |