Vocabulary

literary magazine

Confucius

arranging in order

demonstrative

clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow

Suramgama Sutra

frivolity; unpredictability; erraticism

wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo

not knowing one's bearings; being disorientated

making Buddhist images, implements, etc.

Tokyo and Nagoya

visiting temples, shrines or tourist spots to collect commemorative seal stamps

sexual dimorphism

miraculous deed; unmeasurable resourcefulness

sabbatical; sabbatical leave

stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock

the Seven Wise Men (of Greece); the Seven Sages of Greece

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians

that way; over there

omniscience (of a buddha)

book-cover design; picture on the cover of a book

capstan; windlass

wooden dowel; draw pin; key; cotter

silver-lipped pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima); golden-lipped pearl oyster; white-lipped pearl oyster

Pteria brevialata (species of wing oyster)

black-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera)

ass's ear abalone (Haliotis asinina); donkey's ear abalone

mirugai clam (Tresus keenae, species of gaper clam)

Confucian Shinto

Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)

Sanno Shinto (branch of Shinto formed in the Tendai school of Buddhism)

Uden Shinto (Shinto doctrines enunciated by Kamo no Norikiyo of Kamigamo Shrine)

Unden Shinto (branch of Shinto based on Shingon Buddhist teachings)

Goryū Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto)

syncretized Shinto; amalgamated Shinto

Shingon Shinto; any branch of Shinto based on Shingon Buddhist teachings

Folk Shinto; syncretized Shinto sect

Tachibana Shinto (Edo-period sect of Suika Shinto popularized by Mitsuyoshi Tachibana)

Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)

Yumiya Shinto (Edo-period sect of Yoshida Shinto)