Hence it is, that although the Japanese and Chinese ideograms for the concept “freedom” (Japanese jiyū ; Chinese ziyou) are exactly the same in form, the Chinese by implication means liberation from the human nexus, but the Japanese, compliance with the same through willing devotion to secular activities:7 on one hand, freedom away from society, under the great vault of the skies, on the misty mountaintop, picking mushrooms (”No one knows where I am!”); and on the other hand, freedom within the undeniable bonds of the given world, the social order in which, and to the ends of which, one has
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