Across
- 3. These statues protect Shinto shrines.
- 5. Perseverance and determination.
- 8. Because it bends in the strongest winds without breaking and stays green all year, it is a powerful symbol of resilience, flexibility, and good fortune.
- 9. This colour represents loving, kindness, peace, and healing.
- 10. The flower symbol of the Japanese imperial family.
- 14. The fleeting nature of beauty and life.
- 15. Longevity and good fortune.
- 17. This colour represents purity, emancipation, and the timelessness of Dharma (the Buddha's teachings).
- 18. This tree is a symbol of longevity, resilience, and good fortune
- 19. This colour represents achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune, and dignity.
Down
- 1. Used in offerings to the gods.
- 2. Strength and wisdom.
- 4. This colour is the essence of Buddhism.
- 6. Represents the god of rice and fertility.
- 7. Sacred messengers of the gods.
- 10. Completeness and the universe.
- 11. Purity and protection from evil spirits.
- 12. This animal is a powerful symbol of longevity, good fortune, wisdom, and financial prosperity.
- 13. A symbol of good luck and health.
- 14. The most important Shinto god.
- 16. This colour represents the path to enlightenment, and renunciation.
- 17. The Great _____ symbolizes the immense power of nature, the fragility of human life,
- 19. Because it moves by leaping forward without ever stepping back, this animal represents longevity, good luck, prosperity, and cleverness.