Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
ume liqueur; Japanese plum brandy; unripe ume infused in liquor (esp. shōchū) with added sugar
red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot
ume orchard; plum orchard; plum garden
plum vinegar; (salted) plum juice
plum blossoms (as a harbinger of spring)
Bungo Japanese apricot; Prunus mume var. bungo
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
umezuke; pickled fresh ume
wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
strips of shark cartilage served with dried plum
marsh grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris)
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
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
prune your plum trees, but not your cherry trees
era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
plum vinegar with perilla leaves added
crushed umeboshi; crushed pickled plum
weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot
Japanese winterberry; Ilex serrata
yellowtail blue snapper (Paracaesio xanthura); yellowback fusilier
Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)
Chinese bushberry (Prunus japonica); bush cherry
Umeyashiki Station (Tokyo)