Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of ごえい – see the following entries.
御影
[noun] images, photographs and statues of deities/buddhas, saints and nobles. Also, an honorific term to refer to the portrait of a person
護衛
[noun] a guard, an escort
[verb] to guard, to escort
(This term, ごえい, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)