shigure
shee-GOO-reh
The cold, intermittent, passing rain of early winter — brief showers that come and go, wetting one hillside while the next stays dry. Not steady rain but fitful, moody precipitation that arrives without warning and leaves without explanation. Bashō wrote about it constantly.
Etymology
Japanese (時雨). Origin debated, but the word has been in use since the earliest Japanese poetry.
Notes
A kigo for early winter.
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