a type of くす玉 (kusudama, “decorative ball”) that splits open to reveal a banner, confetti, or balloons

firecracker (powder wrapped up in paper as a toy for children) / a fit of anger

New Year's gift

brief moment

Job's tears

a bead string; a jewelled necklace / (figuratively) life, existence / Synonym of 見せばや (misebaya): Siebold's stonecrop (Hylotelephium sieboldii)

by connecting beads into a string thereby making the space shorter, shortness of something

snowball

A plant grown in a ball of soil, covered in moss and held together with strings; kokedama.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 大, 目玉. / harsh scolding