false mustache, false beard

paying on credit

water caltrop

(historical) Short for 下野国 (Shimotsuke-no-kuni): Shimotsuke Province, an old province of Japan, now part of Tochigi Prefecture / Short for 下野市 (Shimotsuke-shi): Shimotsuke City in Tochigi Prefecture

the Japanese meadowsweet, Spiraea japonica

forest, woods / objects lined up / silent

a forest (dense collection of trees) / a shrine grove

to address someone, to direct, to do (something to someone) / to be about to, to begin / in the middle of, to begin (not complete)

賭け: gambling, betting / 掛: credit / soba served in a hot soup

成り掛ける: to be on the verge, to be on the brink.