myself, oneself

[one]self

(Buddhism) Short for 菩提薩埵 (bodai-satta): a bodhisattva / (obsolete) a title granted by the imperial court to notably virtuous high-ranking monks

title of a piece of gagaku, categorized in the 唐楽 (tōgaku, literally “Tang music”) style

(Buddhism, obsolete) Short for 菩提薩埵 (bodai-satta): a bodhisattva

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)