southern Kyūshū (a region of Japan) / Minami Kyūshū (a city in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)

(historical) Kōzuke (a province of Japan) / (by extension, poetic) Gunma (a prefecture of Japan)

(Buddhism) Rinzai school, one of the major sects of Zen Buddhism

(Buddhism) Ōbaku school, one of the major sects of Zen Buddhism

taking care of one's affairs before death

elimination of stenches

tradition

勅撰和歌集: anthology of poetry commissioned by order of an Emperor of Japan

autumn

first-level administrative division of some countries, such as: (1) state of the United States, Australia, India, Nigeria and Germany; (2) province of Canada; (3) canton of Switzerland; etc.