snake; serpent; large snake
big snake; (large) serpent
venomous snake; poisonous snake
meandering; snaking; zigzagging
albino Japanese rat snake
bellows (of an accordion, camera, etc.); cornice; rickrack; ricrac; pleated shape; accordion pleats
bull's-eye (pattern); double ring (pattern); umbrella with bull's-eye pattern
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one; it takes a thief to catch a thief
God only knows what may happen
long snake; long line (of people, etc.)
snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
body of a snake; serpentine
paper umbrella (with a bull's-eye design)
gabion; cage filled with stones
dragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)
sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen
unexpected things can come from unexpected places; small things can lead to unexpectedly large consequences
sand circle around the ring
being cunning and spiteful, yet honey-tongued with feigned kindness
dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)
satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling
Ophiopogon planiscapus (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
Caesalpinia decapetala var. japonica