[き;つちのと, ki ; tsuchinoto] (n) 6th in rank; sixth sign of the Chinese calendar #5159
[ra] (n) la; 6th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale #6174
[ありあけ, ariake] (n) (See 夜明け) dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) #9584
[he] (n) 6th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 6th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.) #9925
[なごしのはらえ, nagoshinoharae] (n) (See 茅の輪) summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)
[きぼう, kibou] (n) (by the lunar calendar) 16th night of the month
[つちのととり;きゆう, tsuchinototori ; kiyuu] (n) (See 干支) 46th of the sexagenary cycle
[つちのとひつじ;きび, tsuchinotohitsuji ; kibi] (n) (See 干支) 56th of the sexagenary cycle
[くろふね, kurofune] (n) (1) black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century); (2) product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.
[じゅうや, juuya] (n) { Buddh } (See 十夜粥・じゅうやがゆ) ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)
[じゅうろくおんぷ, juurokuonpu] (n) 16th note
[しょじょきゅう, shojokyuu] (n) Virgo (6th zodiacal sign); the Virgin
[こしょうがつ, koshougatsu] (n) the 14th-16th days of the lunar New Year
[みなづきばらえ, minadukibarae] (n) (See 夏越しの祓) summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)
[あかまたくろまた;アカマタクロマタ, akamatakuromata ; akamatakuromata] (n) (uk) red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)
[そうじょう, soujou] (n) (1) (See 十二律, 仲呂) (in Japan) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G); (2) (See 呂旋, 六調子) (in gagaku) scale similar to Mixolydian mode on G
[ちゅうりょ;ちゅうろ, chuuryo ; chuuro] (n) (1) (See 十二律, 双調) (in China) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G); (2) fourth lunar month
[ちょうか;ながうた, chouka ; nagauta] (n) (1) (See 短歌) traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven; (2) (ながうた only) (See 長唄) long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century)
[てんいち, ten'ichi] (n) (abbr) (See 天一神, 陰陽道, 己酉, 癸巳) Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyoudou who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
[てんいちじん(天一神);なかがみ, ten'ichijin ( ten'ichi kami ); nakagami] (n) (See 陰陽道, 己酉, 癸巳) Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyoudou who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
[てんしょうカルタ, tenshou karuta] (n) (See ウンスンカルタ) Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century
[なんぼくちょうじだい, nanbokuchoujidai] (n) period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)
[にほんじんまち, nihonjinmachi] (n) Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
[にほんまち, nihonmachi] (n) (See 日本人町) Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
[ばてれん;パテレン;バテレン, bateren ; pateren ; bateren] (n) (1) Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century) (por
[やぶいり, yabuiri] (n) (arch) holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months
[かわうそうおをまつる, kawausouowomatsuru] (exp) (See 七十二候) one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)