reciprocity or interdependence in relationships {amae}.
Japanese for Ten Thousand Years! {banzai}.
family branch, as opposed to main line {bunke}.
samurai code {bushido}.
tea ceremony {chado}. Wa-kei-sei-jaku are the four tea-ceremony essentials: balance, respect, purity, and tranquility. Wabicha is tea-ceremony style.
punishment {choaku}.
discipline {do, Japanese}.
Learning involves: discipline, academics, and practice {do-gaku-jitsu}.
finding one's place as part of the whole {furyu}.
traditional instrumental music {gagaku}.
academics {gaku}.
professional artist and conversationalist {geisha}.
obligation or responsibility {giri}.
tension between obligation or responsibility and personal feelings or desires {giri-ningo}.
suicide {hara-kiri}.
one haiku poem {hokku}.
main family, as opposed to branch {honke}.
formal {honne}.
highest person, position, or location in traditional art {iemoto}.
arranging flowers {ikebana}.
yin as opposite of, but interacting with, yo {in, Japanese}.
practice {jitsu}.
change for good {kaizen}.
vertical scroll painting {kakemono}.
style of gardening compared to empty mountain or stream {kara-sansui}.
reward {kazen}.
Teaching methods {kazen-choaku} can use rewarding virtue and punishing vice.
heart {kokuro}.
nationalism {kokutai}.
space between two things {ma, Japanese}.
sincerity {makoto}.
emperor {mikado}.
matching worldly objects {mono awase}.
Consciousness of impermanence can cause feelings of nostalgia, beauty, and regret {mono no aware, Japanese}.
worldly-object imitation {monomane}.
absence {mu, Japanese}.
personal feelings or desires {ningo}.
front {omote}.
paper folding {origami}.
ancient, mellowed, deep, or simple {sabi}.
clean {seiketsu}.
tidy {seiri}.
standard {seiso}.
orderly {seiton}.
restrained {shibui}.
disciplined {shitsuke}.
calligraphy {shodo}.
painting in ink with brush {sumi-e}.
informal {tatemae, Japanese}.
alcove used to display object {tokonoma}.
back {ura}.
harmony or balance {wa}.
same as yang and opposite of, but interacting with, in, which is same as yin {yo}.
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