Murasame

Murasame (村雨, Murasame, 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.

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
• A long katana in Akame ga Kill! wielded by the character Akame which curses anything it cuts with a poison that kills in seconds, unless the person cut is able to sever the infected limb from their body
• Murasame, a character from the video game Shining Force III
• Nazo no Murasame Jō, a 1986 video game for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System
• Murasamé Blade, an Ability Card for the popular Kids' show, Bakugan
• An uppercut pin from the game 'The World Ends With You'.
• A demon known to turn into a deity-slaying katana in Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun.
• A cursed broom that brings upon a bad luck to the user, later turned into a shikigami by Machi in Nagasarete Airantou.

Ships

• Murasame-class destroyer, two classes of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• Japanese destroyer Murasame, four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Other

• Murasame, a dōjin soft hobbyist group

See also

• Masamune
• Muramasa