Typhoon and the Nest of a Bee

In Kaseda, people think that it becomes the year with many typhoons, if the nest of a bee is made in the lower one. I report the common superstition of the weather. There is folklore, such as a wind, rain, a cloud, a mountain, a plum, a cat, and a bee.

The harvest of early rice finished. Didn't you have the influence of a typhoon? Why is the place in Kagoshima known, as for a typhoon? Is he favorite one about Kyushu? And Ukaze (typhoon) attacks Kaseda every year.
Now, let's introduce the folklore about the weather this month.

[Wind]

• "It will become a big wind if Kokkaze (east wind) blows."

[Cloud]

• "If the east sky becomes a morning glow, it will rain."
• "If the west sky becomes evening glow, the sky will clear up."
• "If the east sky becomes evening glow, a typhoon will come."
• "If the Mt. Tyoya hides with a cloud, it will rain". This is the tradition in Kawabata, Uchiyamada, Tsunuki, and Masuyama.
• "If the Mt. Noma hides with a cloud, it will rain". This is a story in Kominato.

[Thunder]

• "When thunder sounds in the one morning, don't go to the next-door house anywhere."

[Rumbling of the sea]

• "If rumbling of the sea sounds in Makurazaki, it will become a typhoon in summer. "

[Animal]

• "It is a typhoon if a nest is made at the place where a bee is low. "
• "The weather will become good if a cat washes a face". Kominato's tradition.
• "It is rain if a cat washes a face". The story of Takaya.

[Plant]

• "A loquat is wheat and a plum is a rice field". As for the year which was able to take many loquats, wheat becomes a good harvest. And as for the year which was able to take many plums, a rice becomes a good harvest.
• "It is a typhoon when many persimmons are able to be taken."

[Others]

• "The year with much snow is a good harvest. "
• "The weather will become good if dew is getting down early in the morning. And if it is not getting down, it will rain. "
• "The weather will become good if soot is attached to the bottom of a pan. "
• "It is rain when neuralgia comes out. "

From the Kaseda board-of-education issue "the folk customs of Kaseda-shi" to quotation.

By the way, it will become a morning glow, if a low pressure is approaching and a high pressure is east. It will become evening glow if a high pressure consists of west during approach. If an umbrella is applied to the moon, because it will rain, we often hear it. This is that the light of the moon refracts and happens. It is the phenomenon which happens by the crystal of the ice of the cloud made in the foremost side of a low pressure. On the other hand, some Kominato's people say, "The moon does not have an umbrella for rain", and it is thought that the weather becomes good.

"If a cloud starts a mountain, it will begin to rain" occurs by the following reasons. If a low pressure approaches and humidity becomes high, a cloud will be made to the lee side of the top of a mountain. Moreover, morning thunder has many things accompanied by a front, and has fear of local severe rain. However, in Kaseda, there is also explanation of "not going out now since it stops raining soon."

I heard that a plum was bad harvest this year (1996), and the nest of a bee is downward. However, heavy snow fell in winter. After all, it will also become a good harvest this year!

I quoted the part from the "Japanese great dictionary" of Kodansha Ltd. Publishers.

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