幡

flag

幡 only; Buddhism

pataka (banner)

旗 only

banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)

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

Buddhism

pataka (banner)

Shinto

shrine dedicated to Hachiman; Hachiman shrine

Hachiman (god of war)

Buddhism

long-handled Chinese spear bearing a small flag

どう only

banner; hanging

hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples

Ōban; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar

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

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

Hare of Inaba (Japanese myth)

Shinto

Hachiman, god of war and archery

Abbreviation

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

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

Rare term

thicket from which one cannot escape; maze

Rare term

getting lost; being unable to find a way out

Sendai Tanabata Festival

Organization name

Yahata University

Historical term

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

Historical term

Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)

Rare term

labyrinth; maze

Abbreviation; Common noun; Shinto

Hachiman (god of war)

Abbreviation; Common noun

Hachiman shrine

Archaic; Adverb (fukushi)

certainly