十

Rosicrucian; Fellowship of the Rosy Cross

The Seventeen-Article Constitution

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873 novel by Jules Verne)

Buddhism

worlds of the ten directions

Sports

veteran player; experienced player

veteran (at a job)

220th day; end of the storm period

repertoire of 18 kabuki plays

International Red Cross

Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

the 72 microseasons of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into 3

38th parallel (that demarcates North Korea and South Korea)

around-the-clock system

necessary and sufficient condition

88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)

Unclassified name

Naoki Prize (literary award)

having great (impressive, commanding) presence; having an air of importance; having enough gravity for (a position)

Mathematics

dodecahedron

Computing

decimal; decimal digit; decimal number

cruciform

Nippon Decimal Classification; Nippon Decimal System (of book classification)

Idiomatic expression

something that comes too late and is useless; chrysanthemum blooming on the 10th (i.e. one day too late for the Chrysanthemum Festival)

turning thirty and therefore becoming independent; at thirty, one stands on one's own

Yojijukugo

narrow escape from the jaws of death

there being barely a chance of escaping death

Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi)