Yangzhou (a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, in eastern China)

yangqin (musical instrument)

edge; end; corner; margin; tip / extremity; outskirts; boundary / hem / origin; source; starting point / end point; goal; objective; aim / limit; boundary

a male given name

(informal) Clipping of 明けましておめでとう、今年もよろしくお願いします (akemashite omedetō, kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shi masu): an expression celebrating the new year and seeking good relations throughout the new year

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)