涙なみだ雨あめ

noun

light rain; drizzle

Refers to a gentle, light rain. The term is not extremely common in daily conversation but is understood.

• 涙なみだ雨あめが降ふる中なか、彼かれは静しずかに歩あるいていた。

  He was walking quietly in the light rain.

noun

rain falling at a sad time; condoling rain

Poetic or literary expression for rain that seems to fall in sympathy with human sorrow, often at funerals or sad occasions.

• 葬そう儀ぎの日ひ、涙なみだ雨あめが参さん列れつ者しゃの悲かなしみを表あらわしているようだった。

  On the day of the funeral, the condoling rain seemed to express the mourners' grief.