“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

Kyūjitai form of 塁

committee; in charge

stack / pile / fold / repeat / overlap

胃癌: gastric cancer, stomach cancer / 依願: at one's request

(medicine) zoonosis, more specifically, amphixenosis: a disease that can infect both humans and animals

two heads are better than one

the famous of the “one hundred poems by one hundred poets” anthologies, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235, used in the basis of certain card games

begin with the lesser things to obtain the greater; he who would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

open