clutching firmly; seizing; grabbing tightly

歴史的仮名遣い, 歴史的仮名遣: historical kana orthography

looking upward at someone with the eyes, while the face is pointing downwards

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

Compounds

(archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream

procedures

(linguistics) kanji pronunciation based on Middle Chinese borrowings