master

head of family

suzerain state

suzerainty

suzerain

ancestral shrine (temple)

leading figure

ancestors

regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order

one's family or clan

imperial ancestors

master poet

Minister of Rites (Zhou dynasty China)

root of a moso bamboo

ancestors of the Imperial Family

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens)

suzerain

origin ②virtuous ancestor

Sōhen school of tea ceremony

Sōwa school of tea ceremony

sect ②tenets (of a religious sect)

religion ②religious activity

different religion or sect

religious

sect ②school (e.g. of poetry)

new religion

religious group

tenets (of a religious sect) ②(religious) sect ③one's principles

religious leader

Jishū sect (of Buddhism)

conversion (to a different religion, denomination, etc.) ②change (of ideology, interest, taste, etc.)

religious conversion

believer

irreligion

religious studies

religious drama

primitive religion

sect founder

(religious) denomination

Zen (Buddhism)

famous sword ②sake

Dokuganryū Masamune (NHK Taiga drama, 1987)

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)