(fiction) Hanahaki, an illness affecting those consumed by unrequited love that manifests as the coughing up of flowers, which clears up upon reciprocation. A fictional illness, it has found popularity among both Japanese and foreign online fanfic (especially) artists and authors for its poetic quality.

(obsolete) elephant

Kita (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan) / (historical) the red-light district north of Edo Castle / a surname / a female given name

to go northwards

an empress / any other wife of a male aristocrat, such as a queen

A ruler's wife; queen; empress.

straw sandals

(dialectal, Tōhoku, Northern Kantō, Niigata, Nagano, Chūgoku, etc.) Nonstandard form of むこ (muko) above

to contribute, to donate / to call on / to lodge at somebody else's house / to be dependent on somebody / to increase, to gain / to draw near / to send away

knock / pick out / ridicule