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• Karate
  {{About|the martial art}} {{short description| Martial art}}
  66 KB (9,544 words) - 21:00, 5 July 2021
• Katana
  {{Italic title|reason=[[:Category:Japanese words and phrases]]}} |caption= A ''katana'' modified from a ''[[tachi]]'' forged by Motoshige. [[Japanese sword#Classification by school|Bizen ''Osafune'' school]] influenced by the
  58 KB (8,640 words) - 18:14, 5 July 2021
• Kuji-in
  ...ne 2016}}</ref> The syllables used in kuji are numerous, especially within Japanese [[esoteric]] [[Mikkyō]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} Other translations are possible as well, as variations exist in Japanese esoteric Buddhism. According to the Baopuzi, the kuji is a prayer to avert
  41 KB (6,336 words) - 03:22, 6 July 2021
• Miyamoto Musashi
  {{Short description|Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin}} {{family name hatnote|Miyamoto|lang=Japanese}}
  42 KB (6,322 words) - 21:16, 5 July 2021
• Ninja
  ...isibility]], walking on water and control over natural [[Classical element#Japanese elements|elements]]. As a consequence, their [[Ninja in popular culture|per ''Ninja'' is the ''[[on'yomi]]'' ([[Sino-Japanese vocabulary|Early Middle Chinese–influenced]]) reading of the two [[kanji]
  70 KB (10,142 words) - 14:19, 8 July 2021
• Samurai
  [[File:Samurai.png|thumb|Samurai in [[Japanese armour|armor]] in the 1860s; [[Hand-colouring of photographs|hand-colored]] ...and entrepreneurial roles. Their memory and weaponry remain prominent in [[Japanese popular culture]].
  118 KB (18,192 words) - 03:10, 6 July 2021
• Zen
  ...to become [[Korean Seon|Seon Buddhism]], and east to [[Japan]], becoming [[Japanese Zen]].{{sfn|Harvey|1995|p=159–169}} The term Zen is derived from the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] pronunciation of the [[Middle Chinese]] word 禪 (''chán''), an abbrevia
  130 KB (18,872 words) - 01:08, 7 July 2021

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