to wait eagerly or impatiently

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

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

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

Compounds

(archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream

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