霊

Esp. 精霊会

Bon Festival

Esp. 聖霊会

Buddhist service for the anniversary of the death of Prince Shōtoku (orig. the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar)

spirit of someone on the first Obon after their death

the loyal dead

shrine of imperial ancestors

welcoming the spirits of the dead

Shinto

Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)

guardian deity of silkworms

Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)

equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

All Souls' Day

watered stock; bogus shares

Abbreviation

Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

wondrous virtue; miraculous virtue

list of names of the dead

Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

spiritualism

Linguistics

ghost word

spirit (hiding behind one's back); guiding spirit; ghost

Shinto

shrine for worshiping the spirits of ancestors

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Spirits' Book (1857)

Jocular, humorous term

member of a (school) club who does not partake in the club's activities

haunted house

psychic phenomenon

necromancer

spirit photography; ghost photography