It also comes from Shinto, and I have been raised as a Daoist who believes in spirits, born in Taiwan — but I understand I am not Japanese and not trained in Shinto. I refer here to one particular aspect of the idea: a bounded presence, a small, local, knowable spirit, a system attached to a particular place or practice — a kitchen, a grove, a shrine, a room. I would also say openly that this is not about State Shinto, the imperial court, or Yasukuni. I am not invoking any of that. I use it because it carries something I have not been able to find in English: an autonomous authority that does not ever aspire to be universal.