six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
around the clock; day and night
the six realms (Deva realm, Asura realm, Human realm, Animal realm, Hungry Ghost realm, Naraka realm)
race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track); ban-sugoroku; sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
sixth year of elementary school; sixth year elementary school student
16th day of the month; 16 days
26th day of the month; 26 days
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank
Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is
the six elements (earth, water, fire, wind, void, and consciousness)
inari and maki sushi served together
six feet; traditional Japanese G-string for men; palanquin bearer
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
sixth heaven (of the desire realm)
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
6-shaku-long wooden pole (traditionally used for self-defence, capturing lawbreakers, etc.); carrying pole; 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
66-odd provinces of old Japan; (lit.) 60-odd states
Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen); calligraphic style of the Six Dynasties period
the six virtues (perfections) a Buddha elect practices to attain supreme enlightenment
the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching
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)
six to four ratio; sixty-forty
night and day; all the time
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
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
sixteenth note; semiquaver
ban-sugoroku board (usu. wooden); sugoroku board
sugoroku; e-sugoroku; Japanese illustrated board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track
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
land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)
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)
six degrees of separation (hypothesis)
ban-sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
the six classes of Chinese characters; the six historical styles of writing Chinese 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)
traditional Japanese G-string for men
Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 in Nagasaki
gambling on whether the throw of a die will produce a "one" or a "six"; gambling with dice; gambling; (a) risk; gamble
the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm
Tokyo Big Six Universities (esp. the baseball federation)
the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn
four kinds of birth in the six destinies
hexadecimal; hexadecimal notation; hex
all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin
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")
the six written characters of Buddha's name (used in prayer)
rokusei senjutsu (divination method); six-star fortune-telling
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
B6 paper size (128 mm x 182 mm)
the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love and hatred)
blues experienced by workplace recruits shortly after beginning work
64th note; hemidemisemiquaver; semidemisemiquaver
six administrators of a Zen temple
the six continents; Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia
an old man is twice a child
Sextans (constellation); the Sextant
fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.); (space) filler
the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam
the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith
six-party talks (regarding the North Korean nuclear weapons program)
six flavors (bitter, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, light); six palates; six tastes; rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)
six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)
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)
Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)
rokudan (name of a koto composition)
elegant classical Chinese prose employing antitheses using four and six-character compound words
rabbity six (standard dead shape in go); rabbitty six
hexachloroethane; perchloroethanes
lithium hexafluorophosphate
arsphenamine; compound 606; salvarsan
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; Platform Sutra
good-for-nothing; useless; worthless
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%