Oroshi
{{short description|Downslope winds of Japan}}
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{{nihongo|Oroshi|颪|{{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.Kishō Kenkyūjo. (1969). {{Google books|26sfAQAAIAAJ|Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics, p. 126|page=126}}, citing "Dissolution of Separation in the Turbulent Boundary Layer," {{nihongo|Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics|気象研究所研究報告}}, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1969, pp. 111-174, 126. Oroshi is a strong local wind across the Kanto Plain on the Pacific Ocean side of central Honshu.Simpson, John E. (1994). {{Google books|6WPodgtunqIC|Sea Breeze and Local Winds, p. 70|page=70}} This term identifies a katabatic wind.Haggett, Peter. (2001). {{Google books|D32Vq4m4xLIC|Encyclopedia of World Geography, Vol. 24, p. 1052|page=1052}}
Literary references
The Oroshi wind is mentioned in Japanese poetry, including a poem which is included in the Hyakunin Isshu.Mostow, Joshua S. (1996). {{Google books|U0KcAwrVksQC|Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, p. 361.|page=361}}
{{verse translation|lang=ja-Latn|
ukarikeru
hito wo hatsuse no
yama-oroshi yo
hageshikare to ha
inoranu mono wo
|
Make that heartless
woman, O mountain storm
of Hatsuse Temple,
crueller still!" – this is not
what I prayed for, and yet ...
}}
File:Hanabusa Futen, the Wind Deity.jpg, late-17th–early-18th century.]]
Many versions of this poem which were published during the Edo period 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, {{Google books|U0KcAwrVksQC| p. 361.|page=361}}
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.
See also
- {{annotated link|Halny}}
- {{annotated link|Piteraq}}
- {{annotated link|Santa Ana winds}}
- {{annotated link|Williwaw}}
Notes
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References
- {{nihongo|Kishō Kenkyūjo|気象研究所}}. (1969). {{nihongo|Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics|気象研究所研究報告}}, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 111–174, 126 Tokyo, Meteorological Research Institute. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1761858 OCLC 1761858]
- Mostow, Joshua S., ed. (1996). [https://books.google.com/books?id=U0KcAwrVksQC&q=Pictures+of+the+Heart:+The+Hyakunin+Isshu+in+Word+and+Image. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image.] Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8248-1705-3}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/645187818 OCLC 645187818]
- Simpson, John E. (1994). Sea Breeze and Local Winds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9780521452113}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243798029 OCLC 243798029]
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