はつね

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はつね – see the following entry.

【初音】 [noun] the cry of an animal that signals the beginning of a season [noun] (especially) a Japanese bush warbler birdcall that signals the beginning of spring [noun] a spicy-bitter 新伽羅 (shinkyara)-class of incense [proper noun] the twenty-third chapter of The Tale of Genji [proper noun] (Can we verify(+) this sense?) a surname

(This term, はつね (hatsune), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)