霞

• 読み: かすみ
• ローマ字: kasumi
• 漢字の分解: 霞 — spring haze, mist (single character; semantically unified)
• 発音: /ka.sɯ.mi/

意味

Haze; mist; dimness. A soft atmospheric veil that obscures the landscape, particularly associated with spring mornings.

A poetic noun central to classical Japanese aesthetics (waka poetry, haiku). 霞 evokes spring, while 霧 (kiri) is used for autumn mist or fog in any season — the distinction is primarily seasonal and aesthetic rather than meteorological. 霞 appears frequently in the Man'yōshū and Kokinshū, often paired with cherry blossoms to evoke the fleeting beauty of spring.

例文

1. 朝の山裾に霞がたなびき、幻想的な光景が広がっていた。
2. 春の霞の向こうに、うっすらと富士山のシルエットが見えた。
3. 霞がかかった湖面に、白鳥がゆっくりと滑っていく。

使い方ガイド

場面: classical poetry, haiku, spring imagery, nature writing

トーン: poetic

起源と歴史

A native Japanese word (yamato-kotoba). The kanji 霞 combines elements suggesting fleeting movement with the rain radical 雨, though the character is primarily used phonetically to represent this classical concept of spring haze.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated