守護

しゅご すご

protection, safeguard

守護代

しゅごだい

acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

守護者

しゅごしゃ

guardian; custodian

守護人

しゅごにん

guard, protector

守護神

しゅごじん しゅごしん

guardian deity

守護竜

しゅごりゅう

guardian dragon

守護大名

しゅごだいみょう

provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)

守護天使

しゅごてんし

guardian angel

守護聖人

しゅごせいじん

patron saint

霊

れい

soul, spirit, departed soul, ghost

守

かみ もり

director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)

分霊

ぶんれい

division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine, spirit divided in such a manner

皇霊

こうれい

spirits of past emperors

威霊

いれい

powerful spirit

言霊

ことだま

soul of language, power of words

御霊

みたま ごりょう

spirit of a deceased person

祖霊

それい

ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities

霊異

れいい りょうい

miracle, wonder, wondrous thing

霊長

れいちょう

leader with miraculous powers, humanity