fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
① 痛みのために肩関節の運動が妨げられる症状。四十歳代以降に多くみられる。
at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
the Japanese syllabary table
life is short; (lit.) life is just fifty years
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; (lit.) fifty today is better than a hundred tomorrow