こさめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こさめ – see the following entry.

【小雨】 [noun] light rain, drizzle [noun] 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 1, page 24: 霡霂 兼名苑云、細雨一名霡霂、小雨也、麥木二音、和名古佐女 Drizzle The Concurrent Names Garden calls it fine rain, one name of drizzle is light rain, bakumoku are the two sounds, Japanese name kosame.

(This term, こさめ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as こさめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as こさめ.)