Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture) ②sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

bodhisattva ②High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court) ③title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory

Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)

Maitreya (Bodhisattva)

traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (traveling)

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)

Satsuma porcelain

Buddha-like compassion

Satsuma clan

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!

Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva)

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travelers and the underworld)

Anglo-Satsuma War (1863)

Tara (female aspect of Avalokitesvara)

Mahasthamaprapta (bodhisattva)

Manjusri (Bodhisattva)

Candraprabha (bodhisattva)

Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

Myōken (bodhisattva; deification of the North Star or the Big Dipper)

Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)

Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)

sattva (sentient beings) ②bodhisattva ③Vajrasattva

Satchō Alliance

Vajrasattva (bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism)

bodhisattva

ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period)

svāhā