八幡

はちまん やはた

Hachiman (God of War)

八幡船

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

八幡宮

はちまんぐう

Shrine of the God of War

弓矢八幡

ゆみやはちまん

god of war

南無八幡

なむはちまん

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy

八幡大学

やはただいがく

Yahata University

八幡大菩薩

Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)

八幡知らず

やわたしらず やはたしらず

labyrinth, maze

八十神

やそがみ

many gods, many deities, many kami

八将神

はちしょうじん はちしょうしん

the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year

幡

ばん

pataka (banner)

八幡の藪知らず

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)

南無八幡大菩薩

なむはちまんだいぼさつ

O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!

八幡の薮知らず

やわたのやぶしらず

labyrinth, maze

因幡

Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)

幢幡

どうばん

hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

黄幡

おうばん

Oban, one of the eight gods of the koyomi

八百万の神

やおよろずのかみ

all the gods and goddesses

第八脳神経

だいはちのうしんけい

eighth brain nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve