mino

A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.

Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).

He is a native of East India and its adjacent islands, but the high estimation in which the Mino is held amongst the natives, and the ready sale which promising specimens realise (the equivalent of £2 being often paid in India) render it difficult to obtain a really good bird in England except at an extravagant price.

A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.