おぼろづきよ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おぼろづきよ – see the following entry.

[noun] (archaic, obsolete) the moon on a hazy night, especially during spring

[proper noun] a 1914 唱歌 (shōka, “song produced for school”), with lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano and composed by Teiichi Okano:

[proper noun] Short for 朧月夜の尚侍 (Oborozukiyo no Naishi-no-kami): the younger sister of Lady Kokiden and daughter of the minister of the right in the The Tale of Genji

(This term, おぼろづきよ (oborozukiyo), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)