sand lance, usually a small sand lance of about 5cm full-length

(fiction) little girl

smallness; small size, small (sometimes used as an abbreviation for small serving, etc.) / Short for 小の月 (shō no tsuki).

supper, dinner (evening meal)

today, this day / nowadays

Same as こんにち above

good day, good afternoon: a Japanese greeting used in the daytime

(archaic) (as for) today

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear