八幡

はちまん やはた

Hachiman (God of War)

弓矢

ゆみや きゅうし

bow and arrow

八幡宮

はちまんぐう

Shrine of the God of War

八幡船

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

八幡神

はちまんじん やわたのかみ

Hachiman (god of war)

八幡大学

やはただいがく

Yahata University

南無八幡

なむはちまん

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

弓矢神道

ゆみやしんとう

Yumiya Shinto (Edo-period sect of Yoshida Shinto)

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

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)

八幡の薮知らず

やわたのやぶしらず

labyrinth, maze

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!

弓

たらし きゅう ゆみ ゆ

bow (and arrow)

幢幡

どうばん

hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

因幡

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

黄幡

おうばん

Oban, one of the eight gods of the koyomi

矢

や さ

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