Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
ume liqueur; Japanese plum brandy; unripe ume infused in liquor (esp. shōchū) with added sugar
red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot
Japanese apricot orchard; plum orchard; plum garden; ume orchard
plum vinegar; (salted) plum juice
plum blossoms (as a harbinger of spring)
Japanese apricot and shiso
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
Bungo Japanese apricot; Prunus mume var. bungo
umezuke; pickled fresh ume
wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
strips of shark cartilage served with dried plum
only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees
weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot
marsh grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris)
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
yellowtail blue snapper (Paracaesio xanthura); yellowback fusilier
Shiraume Gakuen University
low class prostitute in Yoshiwara (Edo period)
don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous); (lit.) if you eat a plum, don't eat the kernel; inside it heavenly gods sleep
era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
clothes worn between winter and spring
Sakaume-gumi (yakuza syndicate)
era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
plum vinegar with perilla leaves added
crushed umeboshi; crushed pickled plum
Japanese winterberry; Ilex serrata
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)
Chinese bushberry (Prunus japonica); bush cherry
Japanese wintergreen (Chimaphila japonica)
Umeyashiki Station (Tokyo)