beheading (an instance of beheading, as punishment)

Shuri (a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan) / (historical) Shuri (the capital of the Ryūkyū Kingdom)

nightwear, nightgown, pajamas

it is best to submit to circumstances

to wait eagerly or impatiently

(idiomatic) to wait for one's punishment, to wait and see

"to strangle with floss-silk": to torture slowly

an anthology of one hundred poems by one hundred poets, one poet for each poem

short for 小倉百人一首 (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu): a famous "one hundred poems anthology", used as the basis of certain card games

the famous of the “one hundred poems by one hundred poets” anthologies, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235, used in the basis of certain card games