"One by one, the carpenter removed each charm from the nail, and beneath the seventh from the top, she discovered a homewarden gecko some twenty-seven centimeters in length. Despite being impaled on a golden nail, its paper-thin body was still writhing about."

A variety of tools are depicted in this image:

• Chōna (​手斧): the adze wielded by the carpenter, mostly used to smooth timber and do surface finishing

• Mitsu-me giri (三ツ目錐): a three-bladed gimlet

• Sashigane (指矩): an L-shaped carpenter's square

• Kizuchi (木槌): a wooden mallet

• Yariganna (鉇): a spear-shaped plane

• Kata-ba nokogiri (片歯鋸): a single-edged saw with teeth lined up in a straight row

• Kanna (鉋): a push plane​

The creature is a Yamori​ (家守) a Japanese gecko.  Yamori normally reach a length of 20 centimeters, but the one in Saikaku's tale is of unnatural length.  It is rendered in English as a "homewarden," given the ironic connotations of its name, being affixed to sacred talismans, and creating disturbances for the home's occupants.