a motif in Chinese art featuring the "three friends of winter": pine (or daffodil), bamboo, and plum blossom

基礎的: fundamental, basic

奇跡的: miraculous

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

steam whistle

drop (of liquid); droplet

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

北: (漢音; kan'on pronunciation)

飛び子: roe of the flying fish

The hiragana syllable きょ (kyo). Its equivalent in katakana is キョ (kyo).