Meanings

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%

the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive

age sixty

night and day

hexagonal prism

six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

hexactinellid sponge

six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu)

the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms)

the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)

six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)

six kinds

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

six main gagaku modes (equivalent to A Dorian, B Dorian, E Dorian, D Mixolydian, E Mixolydian and G Mixolydian)

Six Dynasties (of China: Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen)

six ministries (of Zhou dynasty China)

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

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

the sixteen arhats

sixteen-day-old moon