five elements

five elements in Japanese philosophy: earth (地), water (水), fire (火), wind (風), void (空)
Thing pentad Q3109675
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five elements

Summary

five elements is a pentad[1]. It draws 230 Wikipedia views per month (pentad category, ranking #3 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • five elements was influenced by Buddhism[3].
  • five elements is in the country of Japan[4].
  • five elements's instance of is recorded as pentad[5].
  • five elements's subclass of is recorded as religious concept[6].
  • five elements's Commons category is recorded as Mahabhutas[7].
  • five elements's start time is recorded as +1645-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • five elements's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07h95d[9].
  • five elements's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '五大'}[10].
  • five elements's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 五大[11].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for five elements include The Book of Five Rings[12], a literary work[13], written by Q193344[14].

Why It Matters

five elements draws 230 Wikipedia views per month (pentad category, ranking #3 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for it include The Book of Five Rings[12], a literary work[13], written by Q193344[14].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [12] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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