九

29th day of the month

29 days

Kitakyushu (city)

forty-ninth day after a person's death

artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

119 (ambulance and fire brigade emergency telephone number in Japan)

multicolorfin rainbowfish (Parajulis poecilepterus)

Shinto

three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb

kowtowing; bowing repeatedly; three kneelings and nine prostrations

Written at the end of a letter

my deepest respects

Mahjong

all simples; winning hand containing no terminal tiles or honor tiles

pai gow (Chinese gambling game played with dominoes)

Buddhism

facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)

there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field; medicines sell for ten times the cost of their ingredients

Organization name

Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)

the 1900s

ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)

Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month); Double Ninth Festival

士 represents November as it can be decomposed into 十一 (11)

nishimuku samurai (mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days)

Mahjong

terminal and honor tiles (i.e. 1, 9, and non-numbered tiles)

Organization name

Nishikyūshuu University; West Kyushu University

Organization name

Minami Kyushu University

Organization name

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; KMMA

Organization name

Kitakyushu University

Organization name

The University of Kitakyushu

Slang; Abbr. of さすが九州

as expected of Kyūshū (esp. in terms of male chauvinism, etc.)