Meanings

Council of Five Elders

the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye)

the five commissioners

the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, Jōmyō-ji)

cloud during rainy season

Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

The Five (circle of Russian composers: Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin)

bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink

Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE)

the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void)

five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1869-1947)

five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1868-1946)

five generations of earthly deities

five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto

five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)

the five 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)