Source — Weblio, "木漏れ日" (mirroring デジタル大辞泉 and 実用日本語表現辞典)
- Title: 木漏れ日
- Author: unauthored (aggregator mirroring named published dictionaries)
- Publication: Weblio (aggregates デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen, Shogakukan] and 実用日本語表現辞典 [Practical Japanese Expression Dictionary])
- Date: n/a (live/undated aggregator page; underlying dictionaries are standard published Japanese-language references)
- URL: https://www.weblio.jp/content/木漏れ日
- Type: secondary (aggregator of named, edited published dictionaries), neutral
- Accessed: 2026-08-30
Extract
- デジタル大辞泉 (Digital Daijisen) definition, quoted exactly: "樹木の枝葉の間からさし込む日光。" ("Sunlight shining through the spaces between tree branches and leaves.")
- 実用日本語表現辞典 definition, quoted exactly: "樹木の枝葉をかいくぐって漏れるように地上へ射し込む日光のこと。" ("Sunlight that filters through and leaks around tree branches and leaves to reach the ground.")
- Significance for this project: both are entries in general-purpose, edited Japanese dictionaries with no special "untranslatable/curiosity word" framing — komorebi is treated as an ordinary headword describing an ordinary natural phenomenon, the same register as any other compound noun. This is a direct contrast with the "untranslatable exotic word" framing found in English-language secondary sources (see
tokyoweekender-moor-2020-komorebi.md).
Gaps
- Aggregator page, not the publishers' own dictionary sites; the exact original print/digital Daijisen or Jitsuyō Nihongo entries have not been independently checked.
- No earliest-attestation or historical-usage information given.