a random fortune, often written on a strip of paper or on a stick of bamboo, available at Japanese shrines in exchange for a small offering

Mimasaka (a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan) / Mimasaka Province, an old province of Japan

a surname

to captivate, mesmerize

Obsolete spelling of ベルギー

Aquarius (constellation)

Alternative spelling of おおかみ座 (“Lupus”)

a dummy (a deliberately nonfunctional placeholder)

アルミ箔: aluminium foil

The cry of the cicada.