三

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Dynasty Warriors (video game series)

Mathematics

spherical trigonometry

planar trigonometry

obtuse triangle

Sumo

former san'yaku-ranked wrestler returning to that rank

repeated reading; close (careful) reading; careful perusal

being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fiction); being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself

very shrewd in preparing a means of escape; being very good at escaping danger

a glib tongue (with fair words); fluent talk designed to deceive; talk something away

free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes

avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth

winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading

vowel triangle

thirty-four (orig. thirty-three) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture

thirty-three sacred places in the Kanto region (which was previously known as Bandō)

Computing

subscript triplet

Proverb

a child is an everlasting responsibility

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

three main Kumano shrines (Kumano Hongu Taisha, Kumano Nachi Taisha, Kumano Hayatama Taisha)

kami of the three main Kumano shrines

complete concentration on one subject (usu. prayer); one-practice absorption

Music

Tsugaru-jamisen (type of shamisen and genre of shamisen music); Tsugaru shamisen

Proverb

the non-paying lodger asks for a third helping of rice with much hesitation