"playful writing", a type of orthography expressing an author's cleverness or playful wit. One famous example is to write the expression 出でば (ideba) as 山上復有山者 (Man'yōshū volume 9, poem #1787)

imitation, forgery, copy

to forge, to copy

parliamentary seat or seat in a diet (place in which to sit) / such a seat in a figurative sense (membership in a representative body)

Kyūjitai form of 犠牲: sacrifice

cat

茶店: teahouse (restaurant that sells tea)

act; show / spectacle; curiosity

imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of みせる (miseru) [ichidan]

三味線: a shamisen