[ぬし, nushi] (n) (1) head (of a household, etc.); leader; master; (2) owner; proprietor; proprietress; (3) subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); (4) guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers); long-time resident (or employee, etc.); (5) husband; (pn) (6) (fam) (See おぬし) you; (P) #295
[ほご(P);ほうご, hogo (P); hougo] (n, vs) care; protection; shelter; safeguard; guardianship; favor; favour; patronage; (P) #733
[しし, shishi] (n) (1) lion; (2) (See 狛犬) left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine; (P) #7085
[こうらい(高麗)(P);こま, kourai ( kourai )(P); koma] (n) (1) (こうらい only) (abbr) Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE); (n, n-pref) (2) Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty); (n) (3) (狛 only) (See 狛犬) (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine; (P) #8318
[やしゃ, yasha] (n) yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors) (san #11450
[ga-deian] (n) guardian; (P) #14142
[しゅごじん;しゅごしん, shugojin ; shugoshin] (n) guardian deity #18066
[こやす, koyasu] (n) (1) (abbr) safe, easy childbirth; (2) (See 子安観音, 子安地蔵) guardian bodhisattva, buddha or deity of children or childbirth (esp. Ksitigarbha or Avalokitesvara) #19681
[かんししゃ, kanshisha] (n) guardian
[こんごうりきし, kongourikishi] (n) the guardian gods (at a temple gate)
[こんぴら, konpira] (n) guardian deity of seafaring; Kumbhira
[みたてる, mitateru] (v1, vt) (1) to select; to choose; (2) to diagnose (an illness); to judge; (3) to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); (4) to see someone off; (5) to look after; to be (someone's) guardian; (6) to underrate; to look down on; to underestimate (someone)
[こうけん, kouken] (n, vs) (1) guardianship; guardian; (2) (theatrical) assistant; prompter; (P)
[こうけんにん, koukennin] (n) guardian
[こまいぬ, komainu] (n) (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine
[さんじゅうばんじん, sanjuubanjin] (n) the thirty guardian deities (a different one for each day)
[さんぼうこうじん, sanboukoujin] (n) (1) (See 三宝) guardian deity of Buddha the sutras and the sangha; (2) three-person saddle
[やまもり, yamamori] (n) guardian of a mountain
[やまばん, yamaban] (n) mountain guardian
[さんれい, sanrei] (n) a mountain's guardian deity
[うぶすながみ, ubusunagami] (n) guardian deity of one's birthplace
[しじんじゅう, shijinjuu] (n) four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points
[こやすかんのん, koyasukannon] (n) (See 観音) guardian Avalokitesvara of children and childbirth (bodhisattva)
[こやすじぞう, koyasujizou] (n) (See 地蔵) guardian Ksitigarbha of childbirth (bodhisattva)
[うじでら, ujidera] (n) shrine built to a guardian deity
[まもりがみ, mamorigami] (n) guardian deity
[まもりほんぞん, mamorihonzon] (n) guardian deity
[しゅごてんし, shugotenshi] (n) guardian angel
[しゅごりゅう, shugoryuu] (n) (guards the 龍穴 from which flows the 龍脈) guardian dragon
[しゅごれい, shugorei] (n) guardian spirit
[もりやく, moriyaku] (n) nurse; nanny; guardian
[じょうこう, joukou] (n) (1) (obsc) castle and moat; castle's moat; (2) City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)
[におう, niou] (n) the two guardian Deva kings; (P)
[ふなだま, funadama] (n) guardian deity of a ship
[だいだくしゃ, daidakusha] (n) legal representative; legal guardian
[たいげんすいみょうおう, taigensuimyouou] (n) { Buddh } Atavaka (guardian deity)
[おおとしのかみ, ootoshinokami] (n) guardian deity of grain farming; guardian deity of the rice harvest
[じぞうそん, jizouson] (n) Jizo (guardian deity of children); (image of) Khitigarbha-bodhisattva
[ちんじゅのかみ, chinjunokami] (n) local deity; guardian god
[あまのじゃく, amanojaku] (adj-na, n, adj-no) (1) perverse or cussed person; contrarian; (2) antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore; (3) demon under the feet of temple guardian statues
[どうそじん(道祖神);どうそしん(道祖神);さいのかみ;さえのかみ, dousojin ( michi so kami ); dousoshin ( michi so kami ); sainokami ; saenokami] (n) traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
[どうろくじん, dourokujin] (n) (See 道祖神) traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
[ひごしゃ, higosha] (n) guardian; mentor; protector
[ひほじょじん, hihojojin] (n) person subject to a limited guardianship
[びしゃもんてん, bishamonten] (n) Vaisravana (guardian god of Buddhism)
[ふけい, fukei] (n) guardians; parents and older brothers; (P)
[ほごしゃ, hogosha] (n) guardian; protector; patron; (P)
[ほじょにん, hojonin] (n) limited guardian
[いだてん, idaten] (n) { Buddh } Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani)
[いだてん, idaten] (n) (1) { Buddh } Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity); (2) great runner