尊

Yuanshi Tianzun (one of the supreme divinities of Taoism)

Shinto

Izanagi-no-Mikoto; Izanagi; male deity who fathered Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods

Shinto

Izanami-no-Mikoto; Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods

Legend; Shinto

Ninigi no Mikoto (Japanese deity; grandson of Amaterasu, great grandfather of Emperor Jimmu)

parricide

Buddhism

Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta

Buddhism

Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha

self-esteem

putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism

lineal ascendant

Buddhism

Shakyamuni triad; Gautama triad; image of Shakyamuni (Gautama) Buddha flanked by two attendants

Legend

Yamato Takeru; 12th Emperor of Japan, who dressed as a maidservant in a successful plot to kill the leaders of the Kumaso tribe in Kumamoto

to revere God

reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate

Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)

arrogant and presumptuous; haughty arrogance; intolerable insolence

Buddhism

Usnisavijaya; Victorious Goddess of the Chignon

Shinto

Tsukuyomi no Mikoto (god of the Moon and brother of Amaterasu)

head and shoulders (chartist pattern)

respecting the intentions or wishes of someone

Idiomatic expression

putting one's own beliefs on a pedestal; being narrow-minded

Quotation; Buddhism; Words supposedly recited by Buddha on his birth, while raising his right arm

throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one

Historical term; Abbreviation; Bakumatsu-period slogan

revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians

Historical term; Bakumatsu-period slogan

revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians