sentences:  The spirit, soul, "Geist", or "élan" to which the Japanese term has reference, whether it is the "tama" of "Yamato-damashii" or the "tama" of "kotodama", is a vital and active entity that plays no part in any usual Western-language imagery or expression.We have no such word, and we make use of no imagery capitalizing upon the concepts that it employs; but the Japanese have, and they do.