Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)

剣太刀: a sharp sword; a sword (in general); a sharpened sword, alludes to 身に添う (mi ni sou, “to stay by one's side”) and 磨ぐ (togu, “to sharpen”); a sacred sword, alludes to 斎う (iwau, “to worship”, obsolete); as homophone to 刃 (na, “edge”), alludes to 名 (na, “name”) and 汝 (na, self-referential pronoun)

宿り木: European mistletoe

a surname

Alternative form of 供犠 (kugi): sacrifice; sacrificial animal

extremely thin sheet of wood / thin sheet about 25 centimeters thick on which scriptures were written, used in the end of Kamakura period

phone scam involving calls from pretended relatives in distress

Alternative form of 縁起でもない

Alternative form of 縁起でもない

laborious, troublesome