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. ''Oroshi'' is a strong local wind across the

Kanto Plain Kantō (Japanese) Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics. In Japan Kantō may refer to: *Kantō Plain *Kantō region *Kantō-kai, organized crime group *Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...

on the

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side of central

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. This term identifies a katabatic wind.

Literary references

The ''Oroshi'' wind is mentioned in Japanese poetry, including a poem which is included in the ''

Hyakunin Isshu is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets. ''Hyakunin isshu'' can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem ach; it can also refer to the card game of ''uta-garuta'', which uses a deck compos ...

''.Mostow, Joshua S. (1996). Hanabusa Futen, the Wind Deity

Many versions of this poem which were published during the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

have ''yama-oroshi'' instead of ''yama-oroshi yo'', but the meaning is equivalent: the poet cries out to the wind; and he the cold down-draft to the heartless woman.Mostow,

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References

* . (1969). , Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 111–174, 126 Tokyo, Meteorological Research Institute
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* Mostow, Joshua S., ed. (1996)
''Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image.''
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* Simpson, John E. (1994). ''Sea Breeze and Local Winds.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 9780521452113
OCLC 243798029
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