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五
Historical term
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
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five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
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the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)
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the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)
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the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi)
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five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
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five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
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fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
Historical term; Abbreviation
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
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Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)
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the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan
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Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period
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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)
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Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; fifteen years' war
Historical term; Computing
Fifth Generation Computer System; FGCS
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land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
Historical term
three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)
Rare term; Sometimes read ごんどうくじら
larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)