篠 - bamboo grass

pelting rain; pouring rain; driving rain; downpour

hemp over-garment worn by Shugendō practitioners

bamboo grass; bamboo

Battle of Nagashino (1575)

field of bamboo grass

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)

to pelt down (of rain); to pour

to pour (of rain); to pound down

Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)

bamboo grass; bamboo

Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)

American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)