Murakumo, in Japanese, translates to cloud masses.
It is also a name for a cultured variant of a flower, the Japanese Morning Glory, Ipomoea nil.
Murakumo was also a name of ship, a Fubuki-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy and sank in October 1942, during World War II.
The Japanese writing system consists of three different character sets: Kanji (several thousands of Chinese characters) and Hiragana and Katakana (two syllabaries of 46 characters each; together called Kana).
Japanese texts can be written in two ways: In Western style, i.e. in horizontal rows from the top to the bottom of the page, or in traditional Japanese style, i.e. in vertical columns from the right to the left side of the page. Both writing styles exist side by side today.
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