Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'lucky omen; good omen

Noungood news

Noungood or bad luck; fortune

Nounlucky omen; happy; auspicious

Nounauspicious event

Nounlucky day; auspicious day · unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

Nounfestive annual custom

Nounauspicious appearance; good or lucky omen

Nounfirst calligraphy of the year

Nounauspicious dream; well-boding dream

Nounlucky day; auspicious occasion

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

Nounsomething auspicious; something to celebrate

NounKichiimo (chain of sweet potato restaurants)

Noungyudon from the Yoshinoya chain restaurant

NounSri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)

NounReineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

NounJilin Province (China)

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

Noungood news; favourable information · news on whether or not something went well

Nounvaleric acid; pentanoic acid

Nounvalerian oil

NounYoshinoya (gyudon restaurant chain)

Nounsweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) · millet dumplings

Noungood and bad fortune, and weal and woe

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

NounYoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

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

Nounsociolect used by prostitutes in the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period

Nounguide to the Yoshiwara red light district

NounJilin University

NounYoshimoto Kogyo

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

NounKirikirijin (1981 satirical novel by Inoue Hisashi)

NounKibi International University

NounYoshimoto New Star Creation (comedy school established by Yoshimoto Kogyo); Yoshimoto Academy; NSC

I-adjective (keiyoushi)good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable · sufficient; enough; ready; prepared · profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

NounChristianity (in feudal Japan); Christian

Nounjewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid

Nounfavourable direction; favorable direction; lucky direction

Nounsilver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis); slender sprat

Nounreed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)

Nounbroadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir); broadfin thornyhead; kichiji rockfish

Nounehōmaki; uncut sushi roll eaten during setsubun for good luck