characteristic

a surname

to bloom / to make white waves appear

one thing

hypothetical and imperative forms of 咲く (saku) [godan]

purple

a flower / Short for 生け花 (ikebana): flower arrangement / Short for 花札 (hanafuda): Japanese playing cards / the best days of one's life / the best thing / essence

the purple or red-root gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon / the root of the murasaki used as a natural dye / Short for 紫色 (murasaki-iro): the color purple

(historical, colloquial, from 江戸紫 (Edo murasaki, “royal purple”), where the dye is traditionally made in) Edo, the de facto capital of the Tokugawa shogunate

purple