A Buddhist banner, generally with a triangular “head” (banto), an elongated “body” (banshin) made up of “fields” (tsubo), a “tongue” (zetsu), “arms” (banshu), and dangling “legs” (bankyaku). Ban were hung freely suspended from above, both inside the worship hall and outside around the temple grounds. They functioned as decorations for rituals. In the Repository, there are textile banners, metal banners, and banners composed of strings of beads.