Meanings

eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)

many gods

customer at a brothel

the eight virtues

octopods

Siberian brook lamprey (Lethenteron kessleri)

the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals

twilled fabric

all the gods and goddesses

Yagi-Uda antenna

Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

eight delicacies

many kinds

eighteen components of perception (six sense objects, six sense faculties, six sense consciousnesses)

great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri)

pouched lamprey (Geotria australis)

many

game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head