archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

• highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)

archaic  noun  noun (generic) 

• excursion spot, getaway
• red-light district, brothel

noun  noun (generic) 

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)

noun  noun (generic) 

• Golden Light Sutra

noun  noun (generic) 

• Golden Light Sutra (as translated into Chinese by the monk I Ching)

noun  noun (generic) 

• faint light, dim light

noun  noun (generic) 

• informal noh performed in light clothes (during the summer)

Buddhism  noun  noun (generic) 

• land of eternally tranquil light (highest realm in Tendai Buddhism)

noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• frivolity, unpredictability, erraticism
• first-time guest in a red-light district

noun  noun (generic) 

• flashing light signal