judo, a form of jujitsu. Japanese wrestling.
jujitsu, Japanese wrestling.
kabuki, popular drama. Vide noh.
kagura, traditional dances performed at Shinto shrines.
kami, head, source. Shinto term for deity.
kamika’ze, ‘divine wind.’ The hurricane which drove back and overturned Genghis Khan’s invading fleet in the thirteenth century. The pilots of suicide planes in World War II were called the Kamikaze Corps.
katajikenai’, thank you; ‘I am insulted.’
kino do’ku, thank you; ‘this poisonous feeling.’
kinshin, repentance. A period of withdrawal to remove ‘the rust of the body.’
ko, filial piety.
koan (pronounce ko-an), problems having no rational answer, set by the Zen cult for those in training.
ko-on, obligation to the Emperor, the State.
magokoro, ‘sincerity.’
makoto, ‘sincerity.’
Meiji Era, the period of the reign of the Emperor Meiji, 1868~1912. It designates the beginning of the modern era in Japan.
moxa, powdered leaves of a certain plant, which are burned in a cone on the surface of the body for curative purposes. It cures ailments and naughtiness.
muga, the elimination of the observer-self achieved by those who have taken training.
narikin’ , nouveau riche. ‘A pawn promoted to queen’ (chess).
nirva’na (Sanskrit), final emancipation of the soul from transmigration; state of not-being; absorption into the divine.
Nisei, an American of Japanese ancestry born in the United States. Vide Issei.
noh, classic drama. Vide kabuki.
nushi, master.
on (pronounce own), a category of incurred obligations.
oya, parents.
ronin, in feudal times samurai retainers who, because of disgrace or because of the death or dishonor of their overlord, had become masterless men.