June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
around the clock; day and night
ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank
race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku
the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)
sixth year of elementary school; sixth year elementary school student
sixteenth day of the month; sixteen days
twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
inari and maki sushi served together
six feet; traditional Japanese G-string for men; palanquin bearer
the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
sixth heaven (of the desire realm)
Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
wooden pole (often oak), 6 shaku long; shoulder pole
six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning)
the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
endless circle of transmigration in the six posthumous worlds
shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm); duodecimo
Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen); calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period
66-odd provinces of old Japan; (lit.) 60-odd states
one jō and six shaku (4.85m); statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku; sitting cross-legged
crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)
night and day; all the time
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
six external causes of illness in traditional Chinese medicine (wind, cold, fire/heat, dampness, dryness, heat of summer)
six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison); six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory); six principles of calligraphy; six classes of kanji characters
hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
sixteenth note; semiquaver
ban-sugoroku board (usu. wooden); sugoroku board
the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine
Milk Dipper; southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius
the six articles of faith (in Islam)
six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
die; dice; gambling with dice; playing hazard; You can never tell what will pop up
the six classes of (kanji) characters; Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)
six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
ban-sugoroku (trad. Japanese board game played with dice)
Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki
the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm
the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)
the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)
traditional Japanese G-string for men
beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn
hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
four kinds of birth in the six destinies
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)
six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)
great six-syllable mantra ("om mani padme hum")
all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin
A6 paper size (105mm x 148mm)
six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)
Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War; 1333); Capture of Rokuhara
(arch.) kid; (arch.) brat; person from Kansai
the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
six administrators of a Zen temple
the six continents; Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia
Sextans (constellation); the Sextant
an old man is twice a child
(space) filler; fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)
the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam
the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith
six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light); six palates; six tastes; rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)
scoring combination consisting of sixteen 1-point cards
six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
rokudan (name of a koto composition)
blues experienced by workplace recruits shortly after beginning work
rabbity six (standard dead shape in go); rabbitty six
lithium hexafluorophosphate
hexachloroethane; perchloroethanes
the six tools of the ninja
arsphenamine; compound 606; salvarsan
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%