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Examples
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They were like beautiful angels [Japanese word, tennin].
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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And there are wonderful friezes above the doors, from which all colour has long since faded away, marvellous grey old carvings in relief; floating figures of tennin, or heavenly spirits playing upon flutes and biwa.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Above, in the loftiest blue, are floating tennin, angels of the Buddhist heaven, maidens with phoenix wings.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Yet not a picture of her as she seemed to the Master's pupils but the memory of her as she had been in the days of her youth, bright-eyed as a bird, lithe as a bamboo, dazzling as a tennin [9] in her raiment of silk and gold.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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