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Oroshi

Oroshi ( lit, down wind?), is the Japanese term for a wind blowing strong down the slope of a mountain, occasionally as strong gusts of wind which can cause damage.[1] Oroshi is a strong local wind across the Kanto Plain on the Japan Sea side of central Honshu.[2] This term identifies a katabatic wind.[3]

The Oroshi wind is mentioned in Japanese poetry, including a poem which is included in the Hyakunin Isshu.[4]         
ukarikeru
hito wo hatsuse no
yama-oroshi yo
hageshikare to ha
inoranu mano wo
Minamoto no Toshiyori[4]
Translation: 
      Make that heartless
woman, O mountain storm
    of Hatsuse Temple,
crueller still!"– this is not
what I prayed for, and yet ...


Minamoto no Shunrai also Minamoto Toshiyori (源 俊頼?, 1055 – January 29, 1129) was an important and innovative Japanese poet, who compiled the Gosen Wakashū.

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