霊

imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox

sending off the spirits of the dead

the loyal dead

stubborn and ignorant

war memorial

E.g. 妛, 彁, 墸

ghost character; kanji of unknown origin included in the JIS X 0208 character set

shrine of imperial ancestors

bogus (phantom) employee

Chiroteuthis imperator (species of squid)

Shinto

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

faith in the power of language; belief that reality is affected by the spoken word; speaking of a lucky (or unlucky) event will bring it about

Word usually written using kana alone

pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)

Colloquial

harvestman; daddy longlegs

guardian deity of silkworms

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Nihon Ryōiki (Heian-period collection of Buddhist stories)

Organization name

Unification Church (kor: Tongil Gyohoe); The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

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

All Souls' Day

Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)

watered stock; bogus shares

fictitious population; bogus population; population which exists on paper but not in reality

Pentecostal movement

Abbreviation

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

spiritualist

spiritualism