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Proverb
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; fifty today is better than a hundred tomorrow
lost thirty years; period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991
Historical term
the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
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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)
Historical term
ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)
Historical term
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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Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 in Nagasaki
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type of bronze Chinese coin first issued under Emperor Yuan of the Southern Liang dynasty worth the value of ten iron coins
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the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)
