Gardener King

Hirasawa considers this song as having one of the easiest writing processes he ever went through. It was completed while he waited for the bathtub in his Bangkok hotel room to fill with hot water, then recorded the following day.

Lyrics

 * 1 "Shihou literally means “four directions”, but “four winds” is another possibility (Alternatively, it could mean both of them at once…)."
 * 2 "Perhaps a reference to the Trikaya as well as the Trailokya.

In addition to meaning “three worlds”, sangai can also be translated as “the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened” and “past, present and future existences”. The Buddhist phrase sangai ruten (三界流転) refers to “the endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences”."
 * 3 "“Sky” (sora) is the reading given here for the kanji meaning “cosmos” (uchuu)."
 * 4 "Kyuusai (救済), perhaps? (The word can be used in both religious and non-religious contexts.) If read as kusai or gusai, it can mean “salvation from suffering based on Buddha’s teachings”."