Meanings

old plum tree

plum bonsai

well-balanced vinegar

flour made from cooked glutinous rice

cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae)

neurosyphilis

early-blooming plum

yellowtail blue snapper (Paracaesio xanthura)

pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)

yeddo hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica var. umbellata)

rainy spells just before the rainy season

plum vinegar with perilla leaves added

umezuke

crushed umeboshi

unseasonably cool weather during the rainy season

unstable weather preceding the rainy season (normally occurring in May)

last rain of the rainy season (often accompanied by thunderstorms)

clothes worn between winter and spring

crunchy pickled plum

going out in search of plum blossoms