a skewer, spit / (Shinto) Short for 玉串 (tamagushi): a branch of a 榊 (sakaki) tree used as a Shinto offering / Short for 幕串 (makugushi): a post used to hang a curtain / a candle's wick

年末: year-end

Kyūjitai form of 承応

(archaic) the eighth month of the lunar calendar / (poetic) the leaf month; August