JINGA: In common usage, jinja often refers to the buildings of a shrine.
SHOJI: In traditional Japanese architecture, a shoji is a room divider or door consisting of washi (rice) paper over a wooden frame. Shoji doors are often designed to slide open, or fold in half, to conserve space that would be required by a swinging door.
TAI CHI, or TAIJI: An internal Chinese martial art. There are different styles of Tai Chi Chuan, although most agree they are all based on the system originally taught by the Chen family to the Yang family starting in 1820. Tai Chi Chuan is considered a soft-style martial art, an art applied with as complete a relaxation or “softness” in the musculature as possible, to distinguish its theory and application from that of the hard martial art styles, which use a degree of tension in the muscles.
TORII GATE: The gate to a Shinto shrine (jinja), the torii designates holy ground. The gate marks the gateway between the physical and spiritual worlds.
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By Sylvia Day
PLEASURES OF THE NIGHT
ALLURING TALES (anthology)
Coming Soon
HEAT OF THE NIGHT
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PLEASURES OF THE NIGHT. Copyright © 2007 by Sylvia Day. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Prologue
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Chapter 04
Chapter 05
Chapter 06
Chapter 07
Chapter 08
Chapter 09
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Glossary
About the Author
Other Books by Sylvia Day
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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