南風

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 南風 (みなみかぜ) is a noun for a wind blowing from the south. The examples show subject marker が and the medium expression に乗って.
• Basic usage: In 南風が花を揺らした, the wind causes the motion; in 南風に乗って, it carries the smell of the sea.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A wind that acts versus a wind that carries
  • 南風が makes the wind itself the agent that stirs the flowers. 南風に乗って instead presents the wind as the medium by which something else arrives.