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Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)

(East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July)

seasoning

end of the rainy season

unripe plum

seasonal rain front

entering the rainy season

umeboshi

ume grove

second lunar month

fifth lunar month

Ludwigia stipulacea (species of primrose-willow)

plum-blossom viewing

Japanese apricot

ume liqueur

winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae)

wild Japanese apricot

Baika Women's University

Baiko Gakuin University

clothes worn between winter and spring

early-blooming plum

Satsuma mock orange

Baiko Jogakuin College

era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II

plum blossom design

Shiraume Gakuen University

Bungo Japanese apricot

fallen ume blossoms

Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)

wet season

era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II

yeddo hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica var. umbellata)

rainy season

yellowtail blue snapper (Paracaesio xanthura)

Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)

Sakaume-gumi (yakuza syndicate)

congenital syphilis

old plum tree

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

plum-blossom viewing

Potentilla yokusaiana (species of cinquefoil)

(unusually) dry rainy season

overcast sky in the rainy season

Shiraume Student Nurse Corps (Okinawa, 1945)

Chinese bushberry (Prunus japonica)

goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum)

neurosyphilis

going out in search of plum blossoms

rainy spells just before the rainy season

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

strips of shark cartilage served with dried plum

shredded dried plum

return of the rainy season

The Plum in the Golden Vase (classic of Chinese literature)

weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula)

crushed umeboshi

crunchy pickled plum

Japanese apricot and shiso

plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)

Shiraume Gakuen College

cerebral syphilis

return of the rainy season

fortunately

wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox)

sorbaria

don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous)

sunny spell during rainy season

white plum blossoms

long spell of rain in early spring

winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

kōbaiyaki (senbei punched into shapes, e.g. plum)

plum tree which blossoms in winter

Chinese bushberry

unseasonably cool weather during the rainy season

grayish pink

deep brown color

plum bonsai

plum vinegar with perilla leaves added

syphilid

wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox)

winter plum tree with reddish blossoms

Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa)

marsh grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris)

Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)

flour made from cooked glutinous rice

plum blossoms (as a harbinger of spring)

only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees

well-balanced vinegar

umezuke

plum vinegar

Japanese apricot orchard

red-blossomed plum tree

blunt-lobed spice bush (Lindera obtusiloba)

dried and smoked plum (used in Chinese medicine and for dyeing)

Celastrus orbiculatus

Japanese winterberry

syphiloma

pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping)

Pacific silverweed (Potentilla egedii var. grandis)

Hibai Japanese apricot

rainy season

syphilis

match made in heaven

syphilis