Arti Kata 四方八方

four sides (of a square)

Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)

every trick in the book

large hanging lantern

the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)

Tetragonocalamus quadrangularis (type of bamboo)

tesseract

wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade

traffic network extending in all directions

about 80%

being boxed in on all sides