late Heian- to early Kamakura-period poet and Buddhist priest

traveling in every direction; also, such a traveler / (women's speech) any snail with a small spiral shell / Short for 西行桜 (Saigyō-zakura):

(slang); heading in a westward direction

to go westward

begin; start; initiate; originate

Alternative spelling of 初めて

conjunctive form of 始める (hajimeru) [ichidan]

to start doing / to begin

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