Echizen (a city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan) / Echizen Province, an old province of Japan

Short for 陸前国 (Rikuzen-no-kuni): Rikuzen Province, one of the provinces of Japan separated from the older 陸奥 (Mutsu) Province in the early Meiji period; today part of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures

previous remarks, last statement, earlier words / preamble

grey plover / Short for 大膳職.

foreground

complete book; complete set; treatise

resolute, firm, undaunted

(Zen) someone who has not fully attained enlightenment, but puts on airs and becomes self-important as if they have

Kyūjitai form of 野狐禅

(phonetics, dated) front vowel