one

founder, ancestor

injury, wound / originate, start

目掛け, 目掛: (literally, archaic) to favor; to be partial to / 目掛け, 目掛, 妾: (by extension) kept woman; mistress; concubine

A Classical Japanese conjectural auxiliary verb: it looks …; it seems …

目を覚ます: to wake up

(dialect, Hakata) to steal

(shiritori) "ru-attacking": producing words that end with -ru , forcing the opponent to produce words that begin with ru- (a difficult task, as they are few in number and the majority are Western loanwords)

Pleioblastus simonii, a bamboo used in crafts and pre-modern construction.

hole in fabric between the warp and the weft