間: space; room

真: real, genuine / 真: pure, unadulterated / 真: definitely, certainly, exactly, precisely, directly / 真: true, real, main (appended to words for animals or plants to indicate the representative type)

The hiragana syllable ま (ma). Its equivalent in katakana is マ (ma). It is the thirty-first syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行あ段 (ma-gyō a-dan, “row ma, section a”).

言霊: the mystical force inherent in language

someone or something of the same bloodline, clan, tribe, or group / a chemical element of the same group

to give an evasive answer / to be evasive, to dodge the issue, to play games / to make do

bored to death

Short for お茶の水女子大学 (Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku, “Ochanomizu University”).

桜湯: sakura tea: pickled sakura blossoms steeped in hot water

桜木: a sakura tree: Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata of subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, native to Japan, Korea, and China