壇

Buddhism

ordination platform

poetry circles

presenter (e.g. of a paper); speaker

leaving the platform

poetic circles; world of poetry

dais for a Buddhist image

the stage; the theatrical world

platform on which a structure is built; stylobate; foundation

the world of the haiku

dirt mound

dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room

platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

to mount the platform

altarpiece

altar

terrace (in a garden)

Astronomy

Ara (constellation); the Altar

world of ikebana; ikebana circles

opinion journal; serious magazine

incense altar

academic socialism; professorial socialism

Buddhism

goods buried during the ground-breaking ceremony for a temple

Buddhism

Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra