Komorebi 木漏れ日 – Dappled Light Between the Trees
Introduction
One of the best parts about learning a new language is the myriad of new words that you learn that hold a unique meaning beyond words in your native language.
In Japanese there are some really great words that don’t quite translate to English. My favorite when it comes to cycling is the word komorebi.
木漏れ日に自転車で走りました!
I rode my bike through the dappled sunlight beneath the trees!
The words is a composition of four characters 木漏れ日. The first 木 (ko) means tree. The second 漏れ (more) means to leak or leak through. And the last character 日 (bi) means sun.
It’s really quite simple and beautiful, through the trees leaks the sunlight. What an image! And this is one of the most magical parts of cycling the Rindo Forest Roads of the Kita Kanto Region where we love to ride.
More Rides & Reads
- Ashikaga, Tochigi (8)
- Bike Rental (3)
- Bikepacking Japan Routes (4)
- Cycling River Paths of Japan (5)
- Day Trips Rides from Tokyo (17)
- Famous Bike Routes in Japan (6)
- Food (4)
- Gifu Prefecture (1)
- Gunma Prefecture (19)
- Hakuba, Nagano (1)
- Hiking (4)
- Ibaraki Prefecture (1)
- Ikaho Onsen Town (4)
- Ishikawa Prefecture (2)
- Japan Online (5)
- Japanese (2)
- Japanese Culture (6)
- Kagoshima Prefecture (1)
- Kanagawa Prefecture (1)
- Kanazawa City (2)
- Kanto Area Rides (16)
- Kanto Region (19)
- Kiryu City, Gunma (14)
- Kita Kanto Area Rides (18)
- Kita Kanto Region (25)
- Kyoto (3)
- Kyushu (1)
- Lake Biwa (2)
- Maebashi City (1)
- Matsumoto City, Nagano (5)
- Minami Alps National Park (2)
- Mount Fuji (4)
- Mount Haruna (4)
- Nagano Prefecture (10)
- Nikko National Park, Tochigi (8)
- Nikko, Tochigi (8)
- Noto Peninsula (2)
- Onsen Hot Springs (2)
- Ryokan Hotels (5)
- Saitama Prefecture (1)
- Self Guided Cycling Routes in Japan (4)
- Seto Naikai (Inland Sea) Region (3)
- Shibukawa, Gunma (1)
- Shiga Prefecture (1)
- Shimanami Kaido (4)
- Shizuoka Prefecture (5)
- Snow Season in Japan (Ski & Snowboard) (1)
- Takasaki City, Gunma (3)
- Tochigi Prefecture (14)
- Tokyo Area Rides (11)
- Toyama City (2)
- Toyama Prefecture (2)
- Travel in Japan (6)
- Uncategorized (7)
- Utsunomiya, Tochigi (1)
- Yamanashi Prefecture (5)