to become; to change into

(anthropology) ethnography - the branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

civics

Those pieces of music within the gagaku genre that purportedly originated in India.

海松: a type of seaweed / 水松: a type of seaweed

見る: to see / 看る: to look after, take care of / 観る: to view (flowers, a movie) / 視る: to see (an area struck by a disaster) / 診る: to examine (medical) / 回る: to turn, revolve / 廻る: to turn, revolve

見た: saw

The hiragana syllable み (mi). Its equivalent in katakana is ミ (mi). It is the thirty-second syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行い段 (ma-gyō i-dan, “row ma, section i”).

味: (after an i-adjective stem) -ness; used for "quality" of being, as opposed to suffix さ (sa), also translated as -ness, used for "degree" of being

(after verbs with opposite meanings in the ren'yōkei continuative or -zu negative continuative) indicates alternation of action or state, equivalent to the modern expression …たり…たり (…tari …tari)