Tsuyu
22 July 2010 • out of context
Tsuyu = 梅雨
梅 (plum) + 雨 (rain) [plums ripen when it starts to rain at the end of the spring, and then it follows 40 rainy days].
“The East Asian rainy season (…) is the frontal precipitation caused by a front, a persistent east-west zone of disturbed weather during spring which is quasi-stationary and stretches from the east China coast, across Taiwan, and eastward into the southern peninsula of South Korea and Japan.”
I find out about Tsuyu at The Japan Photo Project Blog.