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Terms appearing across the site, with their graphs and working translations. Romanization follows the site conventions: modified Hepburn with macrons, pinyin with tone marks, and IAST for Sanskrit.
- aiki (合気)
- joined energy
- aiki-no-jutsu (合気之術)
- art of aiki
- Avataṃsaka-sūtra (大方廣佛華嚴經)
- Daihōkō butsu Kegon-kyō; “Flower-Ornament Sutra
- baishin (陪臣)
- sub-vassal
- Bakumatsu Kenkaku Monogatari (幕末剣客物語)
- Late Edo swordsman tales
- bonji (梵字)
- Siddhaṃ characters
- bonkan (梵漢)
- Sanskrit-Chinese traditions
- bugyō (奉行)
- commissioner
- bukan (武鑑)
- Samurai directory/register
- bungenchō (分限帳)
- Retainer stipend roster
- bōgu (防具)
- protective armour
- Chiba Shūsaku ikō (千葉周作遺稿)
- Chiba Shūsaku posthumous manuscripts
- chie (智慧)
- wisdom
- emokuroku (絵目録)
- illustrated catalog
- enbu (演武)
- public demonstration
- engi (縁起)
- foundation legend
- enpi (燕飛)
- KSR ura-dachi #10 Enpi-ken
- eri-kappō (襟活法)
- collar resuscitation technique
- eri-katsu-hō (襟活法)
- Collar resuscitation method
- gasshuku (合宿)
- training camp
- gasshō (合掌)
- Palms pressed together in prayer
- Geihan Tsūshi (芸藩通志)
- Geihan domain comprehensive gazetteer
- Gekiken Sōdan (撃剣叢談)
- Collected tales of fencing
- gishi-saisei (擬死再生)
- simulated death and rebirth
- go-ka no hōjō (五ヶ之法定)
- five unities — 動静一体・起発一体・攻防一体・虚実一体・陰陽一体
- go-kachi (御徒)
- foot-guard
- gokui (極意)
- inner teaching
- goshu goshin (五種護身)
- Five Protections
- gungaku-shinan’yaku (軍学指南役)
- military arts instructor role
- gungakusha (軍学者)
- military strategist/scholar
- gūji (宮司)
- head priest
- hakama (義経袴)
- Yoshitsune-style hakama (pleated trousers)
- hanshi (藩士)
- feudal domain retainer
- heihō sandai genryū (兵法三大源流)
- the three source-streams
- Heikyūroku (斃休録)
- record of fallen/resting (death register)
- Higo budō-shi (肥後武道史)
- Higo domain martial arts history
- hohei (歩兵)
- infantry soldier
- hohei-bugyō (歩兵奉行)
- infantry magistrate
- hokkai engi (法界縁起)
- dharmadhātu dependent-arising
- hō-en-kyoku-choku-ei (方円曲直鋭)
- Square, round, curved, straight, pointed
- hōjō (法定)
- the foundational Jikishinkage-ryū kata
- idori (居捕)
- Seated grappling/arrest technique
- iro (色)
- sensing the opponent’s intention
- iwakura (磐座)
- sacred rock seat
- ji-ri itchi (事理一致)
- Theory and practice unified
- jifuku (時服)
- Seasonal clothing stipend
- jikisan (直参)
- direct retainer
- jitsui no shugyō daiichi (実意之修業第一)
- substance in training first, over outward ornament
- Jìxiào Xīnshū (紀效新書)
- Chinese military training manual
- jōdai (城代)
- castle deputy/keeper
- jōjutsu (杖術)
- short-staff
- Jūji-hon (十地品)
- Daśabhūmika, the ten bodhisattva grounds, source of 三界唯心 “the three realms are mind-only
- jūjutsu kyōju-kokoroe hosa (柔術教授心得補佐)
- assistant to the instructor-designate
- jūjutsu-kata kyōju-kata (柔術形教授方)
- kata instructor
- jūkenjutsu (銃剣術)
- bayonet technique
- ka-i hentai (華夷変態)
- Transformation from Chinese to barbarian
- kage (影)
- shadowing
- kaji (加持)
- empowerment ritual/esoteric prayer
- Kakurin Bosatsu ge (覚林菩薩偈)
- Verse of Kakurin Bodhisattva
- kamewari-tō (瓶割刀)
- jar-splitting sword
- kappō (四ヶ条の活法)
- Four resuscitation methods
- karagokoro (漢意)
- the Chinese mind
- karō (家老)
- senior domain retainer
- kashira-nami (頭並)
- rank of head-level (peer of chief)
- katate-guntōjutsu (片手軍刀術)
- one-hand saber technique
- katsujinken (活人剣)
- life-giving sword
- keiko-nakama (稽古仲間)
- training companions
- keiraku (経絡)
- meridian
- kenminsen (遣明船)
- Ming-tribute trade ships
- kenpō (拳法)
- boxing
- kesa (袈裟)
- KSR ichi-no-tachi and kihon #1
- kin-katsu-hō (金活法)
- Gold resuscitation method
- kiri-otoshi (切落)
- Dropping cut technique
- kirigami (切紙)
- entry-level transmission certificate
- kodachi (小太刀)
- short sword
- kokoroe-kata taii (心得方大意)
- outline of guiding principles
- koryū (古流)
- classical school
- koshi-no-mawari (腰之廻)
- use of small edged weapons
- koshiki no kata (古式の形)
- old-style kata
- Kubota-ha Tamiya-ryū (窪田派田宮流)
- Kubota branch Tamiya school
- kumi-uchi (組討)
- grappling
- kumo (蜘蛛)
- spider
- kurai (位)
- poise
- kyōju-kata (剣術教授方)
- Swordsmanship instruction department
- kyōju-kata tōdori (教授方頭取)
- head of instructors
- kyōjun (恭順)
- submission/compliance
- kyōshin (鏡心)
- mirror-heart
- kyūmonjo (糺問所)
- interrogation office
- Kōbusho-bugyō shihai (講武所奉行支配)
- Kōbusho magistrate’s jurisdiction
- Makinohara shizoku kaikonchi ezumen (牧之原士族開墾地絵図面)
- illustrated map of Makinohara samurai reclamation land
- Makinohara Zanshō (牧之原残照)
- Lingering glow over Makinohara
- manuki (万字抜)
- manji draw
- Marishiten shisha-sho (摩利支天使者書)
- writ of the messenger of Marishiten
- marobashi (転)
- Rolling/transferring technique
- menkyo (免許)
- full transmission license
- mikkyō (密教)
- esoteric Buddhism
- mokuroku (目録)
- catalogue scroll of transmission
- monjin (門人)
- student/disciple
- musha-shugyō (武者修行)
- martial arts pilgrimage
- Mutsumi (むつみ)
- Harmony/friendship
- naginatajutsu (薙刀術)
- glaive
- negi (禰宜)
- Shinto shrine priest
- ni-jutsu (二術)
- two arts/techniques
- ninin-gakari (二人掛かり)
- two-attacker practice
- Nishi no Nozoki (西の覗き)
- Westward peeping viewpoint
- nittō (入唐)
- journey to Ming China
- Nyū-hokkai-hon (入法界品)
- Gaṇḍavyūha, the pilgrim Sudhana / 善財童子 visiting fifty-three teachers
- oku (奥)
- inner, deep
- okunoin (奥の院)
- Inner sanctuary of temple/shrine
- oshikiuchi (御式内)
- Secret inner court techniques
- qinna (擒拿)
- qínná; seizing and locking
- reiki no hō (霊気之法)
- Spiritual energy healing method
- reiki-no-hō (霊気之法)
- Spiritual energy healing method
- reimu (霊夢)
- numinous dream
- Runaway Horses (奔馬)
- Novel about nationalist youth uprising
- ryōban-kaku (両番格)
- Both-guard-rank status
- ryūha (流派)
- school, tradition
- rōshi-toriatsukai (浪士取扱)
- Handling of masterless samurai
- san-kappō (三活法)
- for drowning, falling, hanging
- sanrō (参籠)
- ritual seclusion
- sappei sashizu-yaku (撒兵指図役格式)
- the Wikipedia text miswrites 撒 as 撤, and the army-standard graph is 差図役
- saru (猿)
- monkey
- sasoi-katsu (誘活)
- Luring resuscitation technique
- Seieitai (精鋭隊)
- elite/crack military unit
- sendatsu (先達)
- senior guide
- shihan-yaku (師範役)
- head instructor
- shihan-yaku-nami (師範役並)
- senior instructor rank
- shihandai (師範代)
- senior assistant instructor
- shin (心)
- core/inner material or balance in this case
- Shin zui bankyō ten (心隨萬境轉)
- xīn suí wàn jìng zhuǎn; “the mind turns following the myriad realms
- Shin-hen Bankyō (心遍萬境)
- xīn biàn wàn jìng; “the mind pervades all realms
- shinai (竹刀)
- bamboo sword
- shinai gekken (竹刀撃剣)
- Bamboo-sword fencing matches
- shinban (新番)
- new guard unit/position
- Shindō Yōshin-ryū no rekishi to gihō (神道揚心流の歴史と技法)
- Shindō Yōshin-ryū history and techniques
- Shinkage-ryū (新陰流)
- New Shadow sword school
- shintaku (神託)
- oracle
- shishi (志士)
- sincere martyrs of the 昭和維新
- shissō (疾走)
- sprinting / rapid movement
- shizuma-no-maki (静間之巻)
- reading tentative
- shugenja (修験者)
- Shugendō practitioner
- shugyōnin (修業人)
- trainee/apprentice student
- shōbōgenzō (正法眼藏)
- treasury of the true dharma eye
- Shōgitai Senshi (彰義隊戦史)
- 山崎有信, 1910
- sokui (続飯)
- KSR ura-dachi #3 and #6
- Suifu keisan (水府系纂)
- Mito domain genealogical compilation
- suigun (水軍)
- naval levies
- suiri-rotei-gakari (水利路程掛)
- Water-route distance official
- sune-giri (脛斬り)
- shin-cut
- sō-katsu-hō (総活法)
- General resuscitation method
- sōjutsu (槍術)
- spear art
- tachiai (立合)
- Standing match/confrontation
- taichō (隊長)
- unit commander/company commander
- taigi (大義)
- righteous cause
- te-hodoki (手解)
- Hand-release escape technique
- ten-chi-jin (天地人)
- the three powers of heaven, earth and humanity
- Ten-no-maki (天之巻)
- Heaven scroll
- tobichigai (飛び違い)
- the crossing pass
- Tsumoru (つもる)
- Accumulating/piling up
- tōdori (頭取)
- head or chief
- tōdori-nami (頭取並)
- rank just below chief officer
- Tōhan shikō (東藩史稿)
- Eastern domain historical draft
- uchikowashi (打ちこわし)
- 1866 rice-riots
- Unjō-no-maki (雲上之巻)
- Above-clouds scroll
- wakō (倭寇)
- coastal raider
- Wǔbèizhì (武備志)
- Chinese military preparedness treatise
- Xinxin ming (信心銘)
- Inscription on faith mind
- yakuhō (薬法)
- pharmacopoeia
- yamabushi (山伏)
- mountain ascetic
- yanagi (柳)
- ryū / yanagi
- yatagarasu (八咫烏)
- eight-span crow
- yawara (柔)
- grappling; jiu-jitsu
- yon-kappō (四活法)
- for steam, smoke, cold, blow
- yoriki (与力)
- police officer assisting magistrate
- yoroi-kumiuchi (鎧組討)
- armored grappling
- Yorozu (よろず)
- Ten thousand things/miscellany
- Yuishin-ge (唯心偈)
- Mind-only verse
- Yōshin-ryū Sakkatsu-nihō (楊心流殺活二法)
- Yōshin-ryū killing and resuscitation methods
- yūgekitai (遊撃隊)
- Mobile strike unit
- yūkatsu (誘活)
- stimulation resuscitation technique
- zange-metsuzai (懺悔滅罪)
- confession and extinction of sins