目礼: greet with a nod / 黙礼: give a silent bow

白鰱: silver carp

呉竹: henon bamboo, a form of Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo)

imperative of 呉れる (kureru, “to give to me, to do for me”)

Expresses the meaning that someone does something for me. / Expresses a request or desire for the other person to do something.

Alternative form of むかしから (mukashi kara)

distant past

the past, old times / ancient

ages ago / a decade

(archaic, colloquial) a nickname of Ariwara no Narihira, Heian-period waka poet