Crossword-Solution: YONA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The snail is supposed to be very fond of wet weather; and one who goes out much in the rain is compared to a snail,--dedemushi no yona.

The exclamation of the ghost in this poem really means, "Now perhaps I shall be able to drown somebody." (A very similar superstition is said to exist on the Breton coast.) A common Japanese saying about a child or any person who follows another too closely and persistently is: _Kawa de shinda-y[=u]réï no yona tsuré-hoshigaru!_--"Wants to follow you everywhere like the ghost of a drowned person."] Ukaman to Funé we shitaëru Yuréï wa, Shidzumishi híto no Omoï naruran.

From thence come the fearful storms which desolate the country, and no inhabitant of the village will dare to climb the ascent: it is looked upon as a piece of presumption to attempt it; for it is believed that the Jin of the mountain, called the Yona Gorri, or flame-coloured spirit, has there fixed his solitary abode, and has his garden on the summit, which he will not allow to be visited by strangers.

Yona, a poor coachman, has lost his son; he feels that he has not the strength to live through this sorrow alone; he feels the absolute need of speaking to some one.