血ちの池いけ

noun

Blood Pond; pool of blood (in hell)

Buddhist term for a hellish pond of blood, often associated with the Blood Pond Hell (血の池地獄). Also used metaphorically for a scene of carnage.

• 血ちの池いけ地じ獄ごくは、生せい前ぜんに血ちを流ながした者ものが落おちるとされる。

  The Blood Pond Hell is said to be where those who shed blood in life fall into.

• 戦せん場じょうはまさに血ちの池いけだった。

  The battlefield was truly a pool of blood.