vocabulary

a gargoyle

koi (a colored carp)

溝五位: Japanese night heron

to beg for mercy; to beg to have one's own life spared / (archaic) to pray to deities for longevity

(Tsugaru) cute

Synonym of 相思相愛 (sōshi sōai, “mutual love”)

entreating the enemy to surrender

to entreat the enemy to surrender

Alternative spelling of 天下り: descent to earth from heaven; an avatar; in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome