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 on the

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side of central

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. This term identifies a

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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 compo ...

''.Mostow, Joshua S. (1996). Many versions of this poem which were published during the

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have ''yama-oroshi'' instead of ''yama-oroshi yo'', but the meaning is equivalent: the poet cries out to the wind; and he compares the cold down-draft to the heartless woman.Mostow, Oroshi is also a character in "La Horde du Contre-vent", an adventure book written by Alain Damasio, a French writer. In this story, Oroshi is the name of a wind mistress, she can read the wind as it is paper.

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* . (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.
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