屋宇: house / 屋烏: crow perching on a roof

追い手, 追手: a chaser, a pursuer

招いて: inviting, calling someone over / 置いて, 措いて, 擱いて: placing something, setting something in a place; (after another verb in the conjunctive conjugation) doing something ahead of time or in preparation

於いて, 於て: at, in (a location or time); on the part of; with regard to, regarding

Elongated form of よく (yoku).

ace up one's sleeve

to do something in preparation for something else / to do something and leave it in a certain state

at; in / on; upon / by; beside / at the time of

(polite) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / (by extension) selfishness