eight minutes; triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail)
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems
sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
Shinran (founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, 1173-1262)
to eat; to drink; to smoke; to suffer (e.g. defeat); to receive (e.g. a blow)
Nichiren; Nichiren (Buddhist priest, 1222-82, founder of the Nichiren sect)
other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha
father and mother; parents
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
return; comeback; reinstatement; carriage return; CR
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze); peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)
temporarily; short period; once; one morning
treasuring; cherishing; prizing; holding dear
earthen figure; clay figure; dogū; clay figurines from the late Jōmon period
coagulation; freezing; solidification; curdling; setting; congealing
nightmare; incubus; succubus; demon appearing in a dream
topic; subject; rumor; talk; tale; story
halting (speech); faltering; stammering
staggering; reeling; tottering
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper
right (to do something); authority; power
fame; distinction; rise; advancement
to name; to call; to christen; to term