2) 玉の輿に乗る💎

"To ride a jeweled palanquin"...
"to marry into wealth".

This rags-to-riches expression was born from the tale of Otama (お玉 later known as Keishō-in 桂昌院), a greengrocer's daughter who would become mother of the 5th shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (徳川綱吉).

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3) 堂々巡り📿

"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith.

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