pataka (banner)

Star Festival (held in July or August), Tanabata, Festival of the Weaver

long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag, banner, hanging

hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

Ōban, one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar

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

Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

Sendai Tanabata Festival

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze...

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze...

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze...

Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze...

shrine dedicated to Hachiman, Hachiman shrine

Hachiman (god of war), Hachiman shrine, certainly

Hachiman, god of war and archery

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

Hachiman (god of war)

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

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

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

labyrinth, maze

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