a surname

flowers blooming on a tree, especially, an elegant label for 梅の花 (ume no hana, “plum blossoms”)

the tenth chapter of The Tale of Genji

a surname

A group of onmitsu, government-employed undercover agents, established by the 8th Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751). Sometimes described as ninja.

where there's smoke, there's fire

don't cry over spilt milk

(poetic) a mountain where the first-person speaker resides / (by extension, poetic) Synonym of 比叡山 (Hiei-zan): Mount Hiei, where Saichō erected Enryaku-ji, the first Tendai monastery

Kyūjitai form of 国家 (“nation”)

composer