Menarche - Hatsushio

Japanese: 初潮 - はつしお

〘Noun〙① The first seawater drawn when making salt. ※One Hundred Famous Places (1215), Autumn: "Autumn falls on Suma-no-ura, the smoke from the fishermen's first salt adds a mist-like color to the water (Fujiwara Ietaka)"② The first tide as the tide rises. ※Haiku/One Thousand Ku Plum Poems (1655), Vol. 5: "The camphor tree is wrapped around its body (Tei-toku), the royal boat is lowered into the sea at the first tide (Yusen)"③ The spring tide on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. The first tide of the month. 《Season: Autumn》 [Nippo Jisho (1603-04)]④ (Kun reading of "first menstruation" ) = hatsuhana (first flower)⑥

First menstruation

〘 noun 〙 The first menstruation. The first menstruation. Menarche. ※The Thin Bride (1925) by Ima Toko: "The young girl, who had not yet had her first period, groped around with a red silk handkerchief in her hands."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 製塩の時、初めに汲む海水。※名所百首（1215）秋「すまの浦に秋やく海士のはつ塩のけぶりぞ霧の色をそへける〈藤原家隆〉」② 潮が満ちる時刻に最初にさす潮。※俳諧・紅梅千句（1655）五「楠はてだてかい楯身にしめて〈貞徳〉初しほにしもおろす御座舟〈友仙〉」③ 陰暦八月一五日の大潮。葉月潮。《季・秋》〔日葡辞書（1603‐04）〕④ (「初潮(しょちょう)」の訓読み) ＝はつはな（初花）⑥