(literally) a rectangular/cuboid/boxy watercraft

Short for ノアの方舟 (Noa no Hakobune, “Noah's Ark”).

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

reading / (figuratively) understanding of something, speculation about something

to read (look at and interpret written text) / to read (speak aloud written text) / to infer; to speculate / to count

Noah's Ark

The Tale of Genji (novel by Murasaki Shikibu)