also: むぎあき
wheat harvest; wheat harvest season
Refers specifically to the time of harvesting wheat, typically early summer. Often used in poetic or literary contexts to evoke the season.
When the wheat harvest season comes, golden wheat fields spread out.
In this region, June is the wheat harvest season.
Standard kanji form; the reading ばくしゅう is the most common.
Alternate reading; less common and may be considered non-standard or dialectal.
Compound of 麦 (wheat) and 秋 (autumn). Despite the kanji 秋, it refers to early summer when wheat is harvested, as the season was traditionally considered the 'autumn' of wheat.