both ends

a small strip of paper that can be written on, especially those hung on bamboo or other trees during Tanabata / a vertical card in which Japanese poetry (waka, haiku, etc.) can be written on

(rare) Same as たんざく (tanzaku) above / a kind of 指物 (sashimono, “small banner worn by soldiers for identification during the Sengoku period”)

dagger (a stabbing weapon) / hour hand

(pathology) anthrax

simple eye / a monocular lens / A one-eyed creature, such as a cyclops

space probe

quest

search for

independence / homogeneity