Apple (ringo) (05)

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Apple (ringo, Japan)

***** Location: Japan, other areas
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Delicious apples, who would not have fond memories of mother's apple pie or apple jam or apple jelly.

The largest apple-growing regions in Japan are in Tsugaru and Aomori in Northern Japan. The orchards are often visited by a typhoon just before the harvest and many fruit fall on the ground.

fallen leaves
fallen fruit and
fallen hopes

Gabi Greve, September 2005

Apple trees grow in most parts of the world. " Malus domestica" is his latin name.


http://www.botanical-online.com/flormalusdomesticaangles.htm
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Other Japanese kigo for the apple

Red Treasure, koogyoku　紅玉
Sparkling Land, kookoo 国光
Indian apple, indo ringo インド林檎
Delicious, dirishasu　ヂリシャス
Star King, sutaakingu　スターキング

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green apples --
delicious on photos
but unripe

© Isabelle Prondzynski

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Worldwide use

Germany

Den letzten Apfel...
Haiku und Kohlezeichnungen
Hermann J. Mürmann

In den Haiku leuchtet uns das wahre Wesen der Natur entgegen.Es offenbart sich als Einswerden im gegenwärtigen Augenblick mit der begegnenden Naturerscheinung.
Im Loslassen aller Sorgen und Gedanken ereignet sich das Freiwerden für die tiefe Begegnung mit der Natur.

Umhüllt steht der Mensch
von der ihn liebenden Welt
Kann er es fühlen?

Die Kohlezeichnungen sind reduziert auf das Wesentliche und führen uns auf ihre Weise in die Wirklichkeit des Seins ohne etwas hinzuzufügen.
Das Schwarz der Kohle enthält alle Farben ist zugleich die höchste Stufe der Farbvereinfachung und erzeugt im Kontrast mit den weißen Flächen eine ihm eigene Lebendigkeit und Tiefe.



... Den letzten Apfel ....

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North America

Crabapples, Pyrus sp.

A member of the Rose family these occur in both wild and cultivated forms. This is a cultivar which is fairly true to the wild species, Pyrus coronaria. Frequently used in landscapes these trees provide a beautiful color, and aroma to spring. The bitter fruit of the wild species can be made into a wonderfully tart jelly.


http://www.wncnaturally.com/PhotosCrabapple.html

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Malus domestica (Domestic Apple)

The Domestic Apple is a hybrid mixture of at least four different wild species including Malus sylvestris, M. pumila, M. dasyphylla and M. sieversii. These species occur in the cool temperate regions of Europe, the Near East and central Asia. It is difficult to ascertain when domestication of apples began but apple remains in archaeological sites dating back to the Neolithic suggest that from the earliest times, apples were being harvested from the wild and eaten.

Presumably apple trees started growing round habitations from discarded apple pips. However, the earliest evidence of apple domestication dates back to only the 10th Century BC from a site in Israel between Sinai and the Negev. This site is well outside the range of the wild apple species yet apple cores occur in large numbers suggesting apple trees were cultivated and probably irrigated as this region is so dry.

The first record of grafting of apple cultivars is from Greece in about 300 BC. The development of grafting techniques was important as apple plants do not root readily from cuttings. Grafting permitted favourable varieties to be propagated clonally which was important because the favourable characters would have been diluted by outcrossing if seeds were used. The rootstocks for grafts were usually seedlings of wild species.

During the Middle Ages, peasants and monasteries produced many apple varieties and in the 1500's and 1600's rich people with large gardens cultivated numerous varieties. Many apple cultivars were developed in eastern North America, arising from different varieties of seed brought over by immigrants from various parts of Europe.

For instance, the Golden Delicious arose from a chance seedling in 1900 in West Virginia. Apples are grown in temperate regions all over the World and some of the varieties were developed in Australia and New Zealand, the most conspicuous example being the Granny Smith apple that originated from a seedling in New South Wales (Australia) in 1868.

Copyright 2004, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/rosaceae/malus_domestica.htm

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Things found on the way

An apple as a kokeshi doll with Daruma

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HAIKU

green apples -
a man finds back
to his childhood

Read more about my
Green Apples fallen by the typhoon　青林檎

Gabi Greve, September 2005

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From a link with many haiku about trees
http://www.wood.co.jp/haiku/aki-ringo.htm

濃き紅は 林檎の肩を あふれ越ゆ

山口青邨

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空は太初の 青さ妻より　林檎受く


中村草田男

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she walked on
the woman with the apple,
but her smile...
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Weitergegangen
die Frau mit dem Apfel,
aber ihr Lächeln...

© Alle Rechte bei Udo Wenzel
http://kulturserver-nds.de/home/haiku-dhg/Autorentreffen/gastseite_von_Udo%20Wenzel.htm

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morning light
more apples than leaves
hang from the tree

john crook

Read more haiku and poems about the apple tree !
Ray Rasmussen and his haiku friends
http://raysweb.net/appletree/

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Related words

***** Apple Blossoms, ringo no hana, hana-ringo 林檎の花
kigo for late spring

Seen f rom far, the fowers seem all white, but at a closer look they are slightly pink and make a fine contrast with the shiny green leaves.

Hana Ringo 　花林檎　 is also the name of a Haiku Magazine in Japan.

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Haiga about a Princess Apple, Malus pumila, Hime Ringo　姫林檎 from Aomori
Ise Atsuji
http://www1.quolia.com/iseatuji/aki/ringo.htm

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From a link with many haiku about trees
http://www.wood.co.jp/haiku/haru-ringo.htm

林檎散る　昼かみなりの　鳴るなべに
ringo chiru hiru kaminari no naru nabe ni

高浜虚子　Takahama Kyoshi

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みちのくの　山たゝなはる　花林檎
michinoku no yama tatanaharu hana ringo

山口青邨

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「林檎をつまみ云ひ尽くしてもくりかへさねばならぬ」
ringo o tsumami ii-tsukushite mo kurikaesaneba naranu

munching apples ....
even after all is said,
it needs to be repeated
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

Read a discussion about this haiku by
Hugh Bygott, Translating Haiku Forum

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apple blossoms
crowding the river---
a pinwheel comes to life

Andrew Riutta (USA)
http://canadianzenhaikuhome.homestead.com/czhdigest2005spring.html

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***** Candy Apple
kigo for autumn

A candy apple is an apple covered with candy. Sometimes, caramel or some other candy substance. Sometimes they're chocolate.
Even though candy apples are available year round, when I think of a candy apple I think of Autumn. I think of Halloween, fall festivals, and the candy apple displays in my grocery store. I think of candy apple kits at apple stands and farmer's markets.
Deborah P Kolodji

A basic recipe:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,187,157184-226192,00.html

A wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_apple

Here's another link which really shows what they look like:
http://www.ljcfyi.com/ljcsProjects/cooking/candyApple.html


candy apples
at the county fair,
lipstick

candy apples
lined up on a tray --
the doorbell

candy apple --
she saves the tooth
for her pillow

- Deborah P Kolodji

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candy apple --
he tells me "hands off
the Mustang"

where, of course, a Mustang is an automobile.

Rich Magahiz

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***** Apple Jam, Apple pie, Apfelstrudel, Apple Cider
kigo for autumn

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