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Historical term; In western Japan
small Edo period short-distance transport vessel (of marine products, fuel, etc.)
Archaic; In eastern Japan
fish market; fishmonger; marine products
Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
The Book of Five Rings (martial arts treatise by Miyamoto Musashi, 1643)
Historical term
Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)
Historical term
Council of Five Elders; committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age
Historical term
the five commissioners; administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Historical term; Abbreviation
fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
Historical term
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters)
Historical term
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
Historical term
five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
Historical term
the Five Good Emperors (of the Roman Empire; Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius)
Historical term
the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan
Historical term
the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)
Historical term
the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi)
Historical term
Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period
Historical term
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)