begin making / invent, be the first to create / manufacture

new, novel / latest, recent / modern / fresh

(archaic) new, novel / (archaic) latest, recent / (archaic) modern / (archaic) fresh

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of 新たし (aratashi): new, novel

(obsolete) Same as あたらし (atarashi) above

a tale; a story

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

The Tale of Genji (novel by Murasaki Shikibu)