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conflict; complication; troubles; discord

wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

climbing trees; liana

light purple

Itochu Corporation

wisteria trellis; wisteria arbor (arbour); wisteria pergola

wisteria flower

acorn barnacle (Balanomorpha spp.)

dark lilac (color); royal blue

wisteria vine

Fujita Health University

silky wisteria (Wisteria brachybotrys)

amateur; novice; layman

thoroughwort (species of boneset, Eupatorium fortunei)

Fujiwara family

Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE)

Fujita Health University

wisteria vine

gamboge

Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); F-scale

Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity); EF-scale

fujiminori (grape variety)

cloth made from wisteria vine fibres

the Genji, Heike, Fujiwara and Tachibana clans

Fujigaoka Station (Nagoya)

Millettia japonica (species of flowering plant)

Itō style; customary order of setting up the board in which pawns are placed before the rook and bishop

game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

the four Fujiwara families; Fujiwara clan

lupine

Sato Shoji Corporation

Japanese butterfly bush (species of buddleia, Buddleja japonica)

Fujiwhara effect; Fujiwara effect

Fujisaki Station (Fukuoka)

fujiminori (grape variety)

tufted vetch (Vicia cracca); cow vetch

hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus)

Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum); complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)

flathead silverside (Hypoatherina valenciennei)

lupine

lupine

queen coralbead (Cocculus orbiculatus)

queen coralbead (Cocculus orbiculatus)

Order of the Precious Crown, Wistaria

Menispermaceae (moonseed family of plants)

wisteria ash (used in tea ceremony)

goto miso (miso from the Kamakura era)

Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda)

Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion (764 CE)

men are the strong base to which women cling; (lit.) men are pine trees, women are wisteria vines

Itochu Fuel Corporation

Endo Lighting Corporation

Katou Kisen

Satohide Corporation

Fujisawa Pharmaceutical (now Astellas Pharma)

Kudō-kai (yakuza group)

Fujinuma Dam

Fujinami Station (Ishikawa)

Holothuria decorata (species of sea cucumber)

Dianthus japonicus (species of pink)

Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)

Japanese pepper (Piper kadsura)

Chinese indigo (Indigofera decora); summer wisteria

honey locust (Gleditsia japonica)