close friend, bosom buddy / crony, chum

村崎: a Japanese surname

紫: purple / 紫: (sushi) soy sauce

twilight / sunset

a reddish purple

steam (cook using steam)

purple

the purple or red-root gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon / the root of the murasaki used as a natural dye / Short for 紫色 (murasaki-iro): the color purple

(historical, colloquial, from 江戸紫 (Edo murasaki, “royal purple”), where the dye is traditionally made in) Edo, the de facto capital of the Tokugawa shogunate

a surname