してんのう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of してんのう – see the following entry.
【四天王】
[noun] (Buddhism) the four gods believed to be watching over the four cardinal directions:
[noun] 持国天 (Jikokuten, “Dhṛtarāṣṭra”), east
[noun] 増長天 (Zōjōten, “Virūḍhaka”), south
[noun] 広目天 (Kōmokuten, “Virūpākṣa”), west
[noun] 多聞天 (Tamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa”), north
[noun] (by extension) the four most superior individuals within a group or field
(This term, してんのう (shitennō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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