Yasashiki Yamame

## Name

**Yasashiki Yamame** (優敷 山女 *Yasashiki Yamame*) is a main character and is Rentarou's 14th girlfriend. She is a 1st year, class 3 student at Ohananomitsu High School and is a member of the gardening club.

## Appearance

Yamame is a very tall girl with a large frame. She has short green hair in a bob-cut, which is usually adorned with living butterflies and flowers. When working in the fields, she often wears stilts to avoid crushing the crops and bugs. In addition to the stilts, she wears an apron and a backpack, and keeps her tie in her breast pocket.

## Personality

Yamame is a very kind and gentle girl who speaks with a country accent. She is self-conscious about her height, but is proud that she can protect others with it. She has a pyrophobia due to its destructive nature.

## Abilities

Due to her large build, Yamame is very strong, being able to carry Shizuka, Kusuri (child-form), and Chiyo all at once and lift a boulder. She is able to do all forms of gardenwork to take care of her crops. Also, she can talk to animals.

## History

Yamame has always had a large body, which led to her being teased by others growing up. She became self-conscious of her height and hated herself for it. One day, she helped a baby chick return to its nest and protected a small flower from a downpour of rain. Realizing that her large body gave her the power to protect others, she became proud of herself for the first time in her life. Her appreciation towards nature led her to being part of the gardening club in high school.

When Yamame was young, she stepped on a bug while playing in the field with her father. This led her to become afraid of going outside as it might happen again. Yamame father decided to hypnotize her into seeing him as a giant version of the bug that she stepped on and taught her how to use stilts to avoid such situations.

In the gardening club, Yamame grew vegetables with the help of the gardening club advisor, Bonnouji Momoha, and also gave excess vegetables to said advisor to eat.

Yamame meets Rentarou when he comes to the gardening club asking for flowers to make a crown for his girlfriend. She accepts, under the condition that Rentarou helps her in the fields for the day. Seeing how hard of a worker Rentarou is, she is touched by his mutual appreciation of nature. Just before she gives Rentarou the flowers, the vice principal comes running through the fields with her hair on fire. Some sparks fly off of her and head toward Yamame, but Rentarou protects her from them. She is amazed, as she's only protected others before, but never been protected herself. She confesses to Rentarou after this and is brought into the family.

## Etymology

* **Yasashiki** means "gentle, affectionate" (優) (**yasa**) and "spreading, laying out" (敷き) (**shiki**).
	+ "sashiki" (**さ敷き**) is a pun on "sashiki" (**挿し木**), meaning "cutting, planting".
* **Yamame** means "mountain" (山) (**yama**) and "woman" (女) (**me**).
	+ "mame" (**ま女**) is a pun on "mame" (**忠実**), meaning "hardworking, healthy", and "mame" (**豆**), meaning "legume".

## Trivia

* Yamame has kissed and been kissed by Rentarou at least 5 times as of Chapter 131
* She has an unnamed pet squirrel that is shown to be protective of her and supports her relationship, as it stopped a foreigner from making advances towards her.
* Yamame's birthday is on August 11th. This day is known as 'Mountain Day (山の日 *Yama no hi*)' in Japan.

## Gallery

To see Yasashiki Yamame's gallery, click here.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 64
2. ↑ Chapter 108