毘沙門天

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毘沙門天 on Japanese Wikipedia

Bishamonten on Wikipedia

Appears to be 毘沙門 (Bishamon, “Vaiśravaṇa”) +‎ 天 (-ten, “deva”).^[1]^[4]

Alternatively, may have been borrowed from Chinese with the suffix already included.

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毘(び)沙(しゃ)門(もん)天(てん) • (Bishamonten)

(Buddhism): the Japanese name for the Hindu god Vaiśravaṇa: a punisher of evildoers, and one of the seven gods of luck

七福神 (Shichi Fukujin): The Seven Gods of Good Fortune.
福禄寿 (Fukurokuju): god of happiness, wealth and longevity.
大黒 / 大黒天 (Daikoku / Daikokuten): the god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops.
寿老人 (Jurōjin): the god of longevity.
恵比須 / 恵比寿 / 夷 / 戎 (Ebisu): god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream.
布袋 (Hotei): the fat and happy god of abundance and good health.
弁才天 / 弁財天 (Benzaiten): The Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The goddess of knowledge, art, beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
吉祥天 (Kisshōten): the goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN