Job's tears

by connecting beads into a string thereby making the space shorter, shortness of something

a bead string; a jewelled necklace / (figuratively) life, existence / Synonym of 見せばや (misebaya): Siebold's stonecrop (Hylotelephium sieboldii)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 大, 目玉. / harsh scolding

Alternative form of くす玉

snowball

A plant grown in a ball of soil, covered in moss and held together with strings; kokedama.

eyeball

the emperor's seal

(rare) snow