non-conforming process; noncompliant; incompatible
(Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics
talented person; clever person
God's gift; God's blessing; grace of God; godsend
capable person; talented person
genetics; study of heredity
Nihon Shoki; Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan
extent to which (something) is true or false; whether or not (something) is true
the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess
China (sometimes also used in ref. to Korea or other foreign countries)
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
Buddhism; Buddhist teachings
abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
different view; alternative theory; dissenting view
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
Sun Goddess; Amaterasu Ōmikami
centralized authoritarian rule; centralised authoritarian rule
gods of the land; earthly deities
having not the slightest idea
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
farming; agriculture; cultivation
indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people); native; indigenous; aboriginal
Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-300 CE)
dispersal; scattering; discrete
to be remembered; to go down in history
family of gods; clan of gods; tribe of gods
playfulness; playful mood; imaginativeness
purification; refining; simplification
cannot help (doing); have no choice but to; am compelled to; am obliged to; it is incumbent upon (me) to
planned; scheduled; systematic
law-like nature; regularity