[くちきり, kuchikiri] (n) (1) start broaching (a subject); opening remark; start; commencement; beginning; (2) event at the start of the tenth month of the lunar calendar; (3) opening a sealed jar or container
[はだい, hadai] (n) opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines