Tsuyu, the rainy season, began in Okinawa two days ago. From the state of the weather in Tokyo, I think it’s begun here as well.

Even though it isn’t really due here for another few weeks, the rain clouds rolled in and we suffered a classic tsuyu rain yesterday—slow, misty drizzle all day. This is the sort of rain that chills bones and finds its way up under your umbrella.

One odd upside to yesterday’s weather is that I left my old umbrella locked in an umbrella rack outside the Communications Museum last week. Instead of retreiving it, I spent a foolishly large sum of money on a lovely olive green one with tone-on-tone giraffes embroidered on the edges and a bananaleaf patterned handle. So stylish. I hope I manage to keep it through tsuyu. Posted by kuri at May 09, 2001 07:06 AM