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Edo period to early Meiji non-working day falling on all days of the month with a 1 or a 6 in it (when written in kanji numerals, i.e. the 1st, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th days of the month)
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February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
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the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
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Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period
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Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 in Nagasaki
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Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War; 1333); Capture of Rokuhara
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April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
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the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)
difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.)
Euphemistic; Softer than 無理
impossible; unfeasible
fussy; particular; fastidious; hard to please; displeased
gloomy; glum; sullen; serious (look)
Archaic
dirty; unclean; filthy; detestable
Archaic
unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%