薩

bodhisattva

Satchō Alliance

Anglo-Satsuma War (1863)

Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

Candraprabha (bodhisattva)

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)

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

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva)

Sutra of the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)

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

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

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

Mahasthamaprapta (bodhisattva)

Kannon (Bodhisattva)

Manjusri (Bodhisattva)

Bhaisajyaraja (bodhisattva)

Satsuma porcelain

The Sword of Doom (1966 film)

Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)

Satsuma clan

image of the Samantabhadra of long life (with either two or twenty arms, usu. on a white elephant)

buddhas and bodhisattvas

Lhasa (China)

Vajrasattva (bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism)

Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva)

sweet potato fries

Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)

Tara (female aspect of Avalokitesvara)

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

bodhisattva

Buddha-like compassion

Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)

Satsuma biwa

Maitreya (Bodhisattva)

sattva (sentient beings)

svāhā