flag
幡 centers on a flag or banner, a piece of cloth used as a symbol or signal.
幡 combines 巾 (cloth) with 番, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a flag or banner made of cloth.
The left side 巾 means cloth, and the right side 番 looks like a field with a cross, like a flag planted in the ground. Picture a cloth flag waving over a field.
For マン, imagine a man waving a huge flag: man -> マン, and the flag flaps in the wind.
Hachiman (god of war)
pataka (banner)
shrine dedicated to Hachiman; Hachiman shrine
Inaba (former province located in the east of present-day Tottori Prefecture)
Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)
Yahata University
Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (title of Hachiman due to Shinto-Buddhist syncretism)
labyrinth; maze
Hachiman (god of war)
Japanese pirate ship (of the Middle Ages)
O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy
O Great God of Arms, I beseech your aid against my enemy!
White Hare of Inaba
hanging-banner used as ornament in Buddhist temples
Hachiman, god of war and archery
may Takeminakata (Suwa) and Hachiman bear witness; samurai vow of truthfulness
Ōban; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar