cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
Nishijin silk fabrics; Nishijin brocade
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
Iwami Silver Mine (Shimane Prefecture)
silver (Ag); silver coin; money; silver medal; silver colour; silver color; bank
foreign trade; external trade
Ministry of Finance (1869-2001); Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryo system)
sending (esp. email attachments); forwarding; remitting
property; fortune; assets
receipts and expenditure (disbursements)
office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs
internal (e.g. disk); built-in; equipped (with)
hostel; dormitory; (arch.) bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) tea-ceremony room; (arch.) villa
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
weave; weaving; woven item
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
pongee; soft thin cloth woven from raw silk
official duties; office; function
(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property
Japanese oak silkmoth (Antheraea yamamai)
Suō (former province located in the southeast of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)
summons; summonsing; citation; subpoena; arraigning; calling
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
spinning; silk reeling; filature
hill; height; knoll; rising ground
Saichou; Saichou (founder of the Tendai sect) (767-822)
Buddhist thought; Buddhist concept
esoteric Buddhism; Tantric Buddhism; Vajrayana; secret Buddhist teachings; Mikkyō
visualization; visualisation
in order to do; for the purpose of doing
Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas
icon; simple ink drawing (of a buddha, mandala, etc.)
not limited to; not just ...
ultimate; final; last; eventual
to achieve enlightenment; to attain enlightenment
rough sketch; floor plan; blueprint