sentences:  "Tamashii" or "tama" (魂 "soul; spirit; ghost" or 霊 "spirit; soul") is Japanese "kun'yomi", while "kon" or "gon" is Chinese "on'yomi" (from "hún" 魂).The Shinto-influenced semantics of Japanese "tama"/"tamashii" exceed customary English concepts of "spirit", "soul", or "ghost", besides the human soul, it also includes diverse spiritual forces found in nature.Roy Andrew Miller suggests that German "Geist" or French "" are better translations than English "spirit" or "soul"