Meanings

ending up right back where one started

Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)

third month of the lunar calendar

extending over a long time

patching up

stopgap measure

impetuously

fervent spirit

to become still greater

Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)

male Buddhist novice

dais for a Buddhist image

balancing toy

three days from today

female Buddhist novice

to stand on end (of hair)

Yayoi pottery

prosperity

more and more

last day of the third month of the lunar calendar