The 103

*Hyaku-San - "The 103 (tenants)"*

**Abuse** – of substance or person or animal

**Aggression** – the action of attacking without provocation

**Anger** – a very strong feeling of displeasure or outrage at something or someone

**Arrogance** – exaggerated experience of ones own importance

**Baseness** – lack of moral principles

**Belittlement** – to make someone feel less important than yourself

**Blasphemy** – speaking badly about sacred or religious things

**Callousness** – insensitive and cruel towards others

**Capriciousness** – impulsive and unpredictable

**Censoriousness** – to find wrongs in everything

**Coercion** – the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats

**Conceit** – excessive pride in oneself

**Contempt** – a disregarding Of something or someone

**Cowardice** – a lack of bravery

**Cruelty** – behavior that cause physics or mental harm to others animal or human

**Cursing** – to cause offence usually associated with anger

**Deception** – to mislead or misguide someone

**Delusion** – maintaining belief in something despite that of rational argument and proof

**Denial** – the refusal of the truth

**Derision** – ridicule or mockery

**Desire** – strong feeling of wanting or wishing

**Deviousness** – to be deceitful and underhanded

**Dipsomania** – interment bouts of alcoholism

**Discontent** – dissatisfaction with ones circumstances

**Discord** – lack of harmony with others

**Disrespectful** – showing a lack of courtesy to others and possessions

**Dissatisfaction** – the lack of satisfaction

**Dogmatism** – the tendency to lay down principles as truth, without evidence or opinions of others.

**Effrontery** – impertinent behaviour

**Egotism** – excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself

**Envy** – a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck

**Excessiveness** – going beyond what is necessary or needed

**Faithlessness** – betrayal or disloyalty of moral or religious principles

**Falseness** – the quality of not be open and truthful

**Fame** – a state of being known and admired by many

**Gambling** – the act of risking for a greater reward

**Garrulity** – excessive talkativeness

**Gluttony** – overindulgence, excess of food, luxury or wealth

**Greed** – greed of money, possessions

**Grudgingly** – in a reluctant or resentful manner

**Hard** **heartedly** – lacking in sympathy or compassion

**Hatred** – an intense dislike

**Haughtiness** – arrogantly superior

**Headiness** – intoxication or inhibiting of the senses

**High** **handedness** – showing no sign of regard to the rights of others

**Hypocrisy** – the claiming of higher standards than upholding

**Ignorance** – lack of knowledge or information

**Imperiousness** – domineering in a haughty manner, dictatorial and overbearing

**Imposture** – pretending to be someone or something other than yourself

**Inattentiveness** – without paying attention or particular notice

**Indifference** – lack of interest concern or sympathy

**Ingratitude** – a disagreeable lack of thanks

**Insidiousness** – intending entrapment of harmful rumours or misinformation

**Instability** – tendencies towards unpredictable behaviour

**Intolerance** – unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one’s own

**Impudence** – being rude and disrespectful

**Impulsive** – actions done suddenly and without forethought

**Irresponsibility** – lack of a proper sense of care or responsibility

**Jealousy** – of others

**Lechery** – is unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity

**Lying** – to oneself or others

**Lust** – lust for the flesh, money, fame

**Manipulation** – to manipulate ones dealings with others

**Masochism** – to derive sexual gratification from one’s own pain or humiliation

**Melancholy** – a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

**Mendacity** – untruthfulness

**Negativity** – criticism or pessimism over something

**Obsession** – the continual preoccupation of idea or thought

**Obstinacy** – a stubbornness within ones mind

**Oppression** – prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority

**Ostentatiousness** – pretentious show in an attempt to impress others

**Pessimism** – a tendency to see the worst aspect of things

**Power** – the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others and there actions.

**Prejudice** – preconceived opinion not based on experience or reason

**Presumption** – arrogant and disrespectful to the limits of what is permitted appropriate

**Pretense** – to make something that is not the case appear true

**Pride** – satisfaction in ones own achievement and successes

**Prodigality** – excessive or wasteful spending

**Quarrelsomeness** – the continuous argument of everything

**Rage** – uncontrollable violent anger

**Rapacity** – aggressive greed

**Ridicule** – to subject someone to contemptuous language or behaviour

**Sadism** – inflicting pain and suffering on oneself or others

**Sarcasm** – the use of irony to mock

**Seduction** – temptation in attractiveness by means of a lesser form of manipulation

**Sexual** **Misconduct** – with oneself and others partners our spouses

**Shamelessness** – behavior marked by a bold defiance of the lack of shame

**Showoff** – to boastfully display ones abilities

**Spitefulness** – desire to inflict injury or harm someone either physical or mental

**Stinginess** – unwilling to share with others

**Stubbornness** – sticking to one’s views, attitude or position on something or someone

**Terrorize** – to inflict mental of physical pain to animal or person

**Torment** – a continuation of something that causes suffering mentally

**Tyranny** – cruel and oppressive rule or control

**Uncomprehending** – the inability to grasp something even after logically argument

**Uncompromising** – unwillingness to make concessions for others

**Unfriendliness** – a state of being hostile towards others

**Unyieldingness** – inflexible in ones views or opinions

**Vanity** – excessive pride in ones appearance or achievements

**Vindictiveness** – to hold strong feelings of revenge towards someone

**Violence** – to cause or inflict violence of any form.

**Voluptuousness** – being lush and abundant to the pleasure senses

**Wrathful** – characterized by excess rage or anger

The actual full tenant list is 108, but over the centuries the Daimyo's have purposefully excluded the following five: Calculating, Humiliation, Hostility, Hurtfulness, and Mercilessness - because they do not coincide with their motives. But, of course, the samurai and clan members were lied to and have only ever been told there are 103, and do not know that there are five more.