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Shutara

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Shirou

1

Suguro

4

Stra

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Asura; demigod; fighting; carnage; sledge (for conveying large rocks, logs, etc.); log slide

3

to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one

1

Toudou

1

svāhā; well said; so be it

1

to take care; to mind; to be attentive

1

exorcist

2

(rock) crystal; high purity quartz

1

fungal filament; hypha; hyphae

1

material world

1

ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)

1

an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

1

Wisdom King; Vidyaraja

1

the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)

1

self-denial

1

Okumura

8

abominable snowman; yeti

5

conquering the devil

1

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)

1

(take) shelter; shunt

1

seedbed; nursery; seed-plot

1

Shima (former province located at the eastern tip of present-day Mie Prefecture)

2

reproductive (procreative) power; fertility

1

mantra; Shingon sect (of Buddhism)

1

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

1

spore

1

sacred tree; support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires

4

Satan

1

forest; shrine grove

1

dilatorily; sluggishly; to take a lot of time; to become late; to take it easy

1

(most) basic of basics

1

sweet words; smooth talk; cajolery; flattery; sycophancy

1

mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain

2

phosphorus (P)

3

trivial; trifling

1

vajra (indestructible substance); diamond; adamantine; thunderbolt; Indra's weapon; Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth

1

equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held); Buddhist services during the equinoctial week; nirvana

1

single cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

1

good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless

1

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

1

uncleanliness; dirtiness; (arch.) menses; (arch.) feces (faeces); bathroom

1

to use excessively; to use too much; to spend too much; to overwork someone

1

leakage; omission; oversight; I; me

1

God's will; heaven's decree; mandate of Heaven; one's life; one's lifespan

1

preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

1

samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to

4

fungus; germ; bacterium; bacillus

1