(historical) a type of improvised, humorous short play popular during the eighteenth century

zero

a male given name

extend / give / cast

companion

an order, command, decree / (historical) in ancient China, a regional governor or magistrate / (historical) in the early Meiji period, the forerunner of a 知事 (chiji, “prefectural governor”)

act, law, ordinance, rule / law, ordinance, regulation / (obsolete) admonition, teaching / honorific prefix added before a term of kinship to show respect to someone else's relative

a female given name

go against, run counter to / go back, return

Short for 栃木 (Tochigi, “Tochigi (a prefecture of Japan)”).