しぐれ

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Japanese

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時雨
a rainshower in late summer, autumn, or winter
(by extension, figurative) shedding tears
Short for 時雨煮 (shigureni), 時雨羹 (shigurekan), 時雨饅頭 (shigure manjū), etc.
Short for 時雨蛤 (shigure hamaguri): clams cooked in the shigureni method with soy sauce; a specialty of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture
to rain a shower
to shed tears
name of an 泡盛 (awamori, Okinawan liquor made from rice or millet)
a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, see Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
a female given name
a surname
(This term, しぐれ (shigure), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)