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.)