英日字典： 寺入り
寺入り
- (n) (1) (See 寺子屋) 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.)
