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Devanagari script

Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition)

pre-literate society; non-literate society

to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

Computing

syntactic error

high culture

transcription of Chinese classics into Japanese

alphanumeric character

Saxifraga fortunei var. alpina (species of rockfoil flower)

twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

bibliography

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

fountainhead of culture; Ministry of Education

same race and same language

search string

Proverb

the early bird catches the worm

study of historical documents; diplomatics; diplomatic; paleography; palaeography

teletext broadcasting

Panama Papers

pornographic literature; sensual literature; erotic literature

Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Siddham script

subculture

Organization name

Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute