薩 - salvation, Buddha

bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha

Lhasa (China)

traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)

Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva); Fugen; Puxian

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld); Ksitigarbha; Jizo

Anglo-Satsuma War (1863); Bombardment of Kagoshima

Satchō Alliance; 1866 alliance between the feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū

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

Satsuma porcelain

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion

sattva (sentient beings)

bodhisattva