Murasame

Murasame（村雨）, literally "village rain", though often translated as "autumn rain", refers to a type of rain that falls hard, then gently, in fits and starts. In Japanese poetic tradition, it is particularly associated with the cold rains of autumn.^[1]

Murasame may refer to:

In fiction

• tsure Murasame, one of two sisters in the Noh drama Matsukaze
• Murasame, a rain-summoning katana from the 19th century Japanese novel "Nansō Satomi Hakkenden"(南総里見八犬伝)
• Four Murasame, a character from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• MVF-M11C Murasame, a combat vehicle from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Murasame Liger, a mecha from Zoids: Genesis
• Murasame, a recurring sword from the Final Fantasy video game series
• Murasame, a sword from the manga Bastard!! wielded by the character Gara
• Murasame, a character from the video game Shining Force III
• Nazo no Murasame Jō, a 1986 video game for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System
• Murasame, most preferred Legendary Weapon on the Easy Difficulty in Ninjamanager
• Murasamé Blade, an Ability Card for the popular Kids' show, Bakugan Bakugan

Ships

• Japanese destroyer Murasame (1937–1943) of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Murasame class destroyer (1958) (1958–1988), a class of destroyers in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Murasame, the lead ship of the Murasame class
• Murasame class destroyer (1994—), a third-generation warship class in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Murasame (DD-101), lead ship of Murasame class

Other

• Murasame, a dōjin soft hobbyist group

See also

• Masamune
• Muramasa

1. ^ Tyler, Royall (ed.) Japanese Nō Dramas. London: Penguin Books, 1992. p187.