to concentrate one's effort (on something)
placement; fixed position; mapping out; location
Emperor Seiwa; Seiwa Tenno (850-880 CE, reigning: 858-876 CE)
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
intensification; aggravation
priest soldier; warrior monk
cheap; inexpensive; calm; peaceful; quiet
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
Acala (Wisdom King); Acalanatha; Fudō Myōō (Myō-ō); fierce Buddhist deity
with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by
thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect)
ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
ordinary people; common folk; general masses; man in the street; populace at large
being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to
Konkokyo (Shinto sect founded in 1859)
since when; from when; how long
clear; distinct; evident; definite
folk beliefs; folk religion
mountain recess; deep in the mountains
to brush off; to shake off
extra-sensory perception; ESP; psi; psychokinesis; PK
miraculous efficacy; miracle; miraculous virtue
En no Ozunu (634-c.700) (founder of Shugendō)
foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base
at a young age; while still young
cavern; cave; cave system; grotto
roost; nest; pad; crib; one's home
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
creeping plant; creeper; vine; liana; liane
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on