Yoshinoya (gyudon restaurant chain)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392)

Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392)

Yoshida Shinto

Yoshikawa Shinto (Confucianist form of Shinto, stripped of Buddhist influence)

language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period

earth form of "good luck" character

guide to the Yoshiwara red light district

scratch marks on the neck of a body (indicating a struggling victim of strangulation)

Sumiyoshi-kai (yakuza syndicate)

Yoshimoto Kogyo

gyudon from the Yoshinoya chain restaurant

Yoshimoto New Star Creation (comedy school established by Yoshimoto Kogyo)

good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result) ②unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

excellent luck

good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result)

lucky day ②unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)

auspicious event

very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar)

man of incorruptible character

very auspicious day for all types of occasions

festive annual custom

10,000 yen note

the best time for doing something is as soon as you've thought of it

auspicious dream

very auspicious day

moderately good luck (in fortune telling)

Kichiimo (chain of sweet potato restaurants)

ominous

Kakitsu era (1441.2.17-1444.2.5)

Mohe (one of the Tungusic-speaking tribes)

Jilin Province (China)

Jilin University

good news

lucky omen

lucky omen

good or bad luck

lucky day

Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)

auspicious appearance

good and bad fortune, and weal and woe

first calligraphy of the year

sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) ②millet dumplings

Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)

Kibi International University

Kirikirijin (1981 satirical novel by Inoue Hisashi)

Hie Shinto (form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)