① 体に触れてもいないのに突然皮膚が裂けて鎌で切ったような切り傷ができる現象。古来、いたちのような怪物が引き起こすと考えられていた。鎌風。
going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth; itachigokko; Japanese children's game
final emergency measure; final defence when one is cornered (defense)
not to write to or visit someone; (lit.) road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again)
polecat (Mustela putorius); ferret; fitch
stoat (Mustela erminea); ermine; short-tailed weasel
Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi)
Korean yellow weasel (Mustela sibirica coreana)
goatsbeard brotula (species of ophidiiform fish, Brotula multibarbata)
ferret badger (esp. the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata)
false indigo (Amorpha fruticosa); bastard indigo; leadwort