According to Kindaichi Haruhiko, a linguist, there are more than forty different expressions for rain in Japanese: harusame (drizzles of early springtime), shigure (light showers in late autumn or early winter), yudachi (a shower in the late afternoon to early evening, often in the summer), raiu (thunderstorms), samidare (a long spell of passing showers in May by the lunar calendar), tsuyu (the rainy season in early summer), and akisame (long autumn rains) to name but a few."NIPO-235", "2232753"