蛇じゃの目め傘がさ

noun

paper umbrella with a bull's-eye design

A traditional Japanese oil-paper umbrella with a distinctive concentric ring pattern resembling a snake's eye. Often seen in period settings or ukiyo-e.

• 時じ代だい劇げきでは、よく蛇じゃの目め傘がさをさした女じょ性せいが登とう場じょうする。

  In period dramas, a woman holding a snake-eye umbrella often appears.

• 浮うき世よ絵えに描えがかれた蛇じゃの目め傘がさは、雨あめの日ひの風ふ情ぜいを感かんじさせる。

  The snake-eye umbrella depicted in ukiyo-e evokes the atmosphere of a rainy day.