雪ゆき占うら

noun

snow divination; predicting harvest from snow shape

A traditional folk practice of forecasting the year's crop yields by observing the shape and pattern of lingering snow in early spring. Rare and culturally specific; mostly encountered in historical or ethnographic contexts.

• 昔むかしの農のう家かでは、雪ゆき占うらでその年としの作さく柄がらを占うらなった。

  In old farming households, they used snow divination to predict the year's harvest.