the Chimera

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

visit (to a shrine, temple, grave, etc.)

(humble) alternative form of いってきます (itte kimasu)

(formal) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

private; mine

七七日: the forty-ninth day after a person dies; the Buddhist memorial service that occurs forty-nine days after a person dies

(historical) a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan; samurai / a servant / a retainer / Short for 侍所 (samurai-dokoro): the Board of Retainers in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.

cold

tie-dyeing