梅

dried and smoked plum (used in Chinese medicine and for dyeing)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Plum in the Golden Vase (classic of Chinese literature); The Golden Lotus; Chin P'ing Mei; Jin Ping Mei

Organization name

Sakaume-gumi (yakuza syndicate)

entering the rainy season; beginning of the rainy season

end of the rainy season

seasonal rain front

crunchy pickled plum

sunny spell during rainy season

Organization name

Shiraume Student Nurse Corps (Okinawa, 1945)

Medicine

neurosyphilis

Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

long spell of rain in early spring

rainy spells just before the rainy season

weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot

Proverb

only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees

Proverb

don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous); if you eat a plum, don't eat the kernel; inside it heavenly gods sleep

Food, cooking

crushed umeboshi; crushed pickled plum

fortunately; luckily

congenital syphilis

Sumo

era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II

Satsuma mock orange; Philadelphus satsumi

Pacific silverweed (Potentilla egedii var. grandis); Eged's silverweed

cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

unstable weather preceding the rainy season (normally occurring in May)