神

laver

Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent

Toyouke Shrine (the outer shrine of Ise Shrine); Toyuke Shrine

ridged cracks that form in the ice on Lake Suwa

Buddhism

the thirty guardian deities (one for each day of the lunar month)

pioneering spirit

Shinto

Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)

absence seizure

spirit of defiance of the opposition party; anti-establishment mindset

Medicine

recurrent nerve paralysis

systematic theology

Confucian Shinto

Anatomy

hypoglossal nerve

Buddhism

six supernormal powers

liberation theology; theology of liberation

atheist

eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe

Anatomy

trochlear nerve

(belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

Law

Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act

grand kagura performance at Ise

Proverb

a sound mind is in a sound body; mens sana in corpore sano

toilet god; guardian deity of the privy