七

(French) July Monarchy

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians

the seven previous incarnations of Buddha

Music

seventh chord

Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)

Music

heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord

the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world

Sorbus matsumurana (species of rowan)

Buddhism

Verse of the Shared Morality of the Seven Buddhas

Proverb

every person has their eccentricities

shippō pattern (of overlapping circles)

Idiomatic expression

to humbly implore; to beg profusely

the Feast of Weeks; Pentecost

the Feast of Weeks; Pentecost

seventy percent polished rice

Music

pentatonic scale

poem of eight lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters

From Du Fu

men seldom live to be seventy; few people live to be seventy

Sendai Tanabata Festival

type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)

the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)

seven generations of celestial deities