武器: weapon, arms / 舞姫: female dancer; dancing girl; danseuse / 葺: (suffix) roofing; roofed with; thatching; thatched with; shingling; shingled with

(informal, humorous) A phrase used to feign ignorance to the existence of a concept.

何事: what sort of matter; unspecified matter

何奴: which one, who

"to end as a fruitless blossom": to end without bearing fruit (results)

何が何でも: at all costs, whatever it takes

the poem traditionally attributed to Wani in the Kokin Wakashū kana preface:

nothing, none (used with things)

A 19th-20th century type of storytelling accompanied by a shamisen.

above all; more than anything else