Compounds

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

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

stagehand in kabuki and bunraku (who dresses fully in black)

steam whistle

drop (of liquid); droplet

people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season), it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of

(uranography) Winter Triangle - a bright asterism of the northern winter sky. Its corners are the stars Betelgeuse, Procyon, and Sirius.

祝く, 寿く: congratulate, wish well / 惚く, 呆く: be senile or mentally slow

北: (漢音; kan'on pronunciation)