Mushrooms (ki no ko)

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Mushrooms (ki no ko, kinoko)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Mushrooms are a delicacy of autumn, with their many varieties growing in the ground or on trees. Let us look at some kigo with these "children of the trees" ki no ko.

Gabi Greve

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Late Autumn

mushrooms, kinoko, ki no ko, take 茸, 菌
first mushroom, hatsu-take hatsutake 初茸
mountain with mushrooms, takeyama 茸山

pine mushroom, matsutake 松茸
..... one of the most expensive !

hackberry mushrooms, enokidake 榎茸
chestnut mushroom, kuridake 栗茸


pasania mushroom, shiitake 椎茸
..... Cortinellus shiitake
..... Many farmers grow them on old logs behind the barn, for the family delight.
.................................................... Details are here:
Shiitake Mushrooms Japan


meadow mushrooms, shimeji 湿地茸, 占地, しめじ
Hon-shimeji (Lyophyllum shimeji)
..... Agaricus campestris, A. hortensis and others


rice with fresh mushrooms, kinoko meshi, takenoko meshi 茸飯
..... a delicacy on a cold autumn night
more dishes are in the WASHOKU saijiki.



looking for mushrooms in the forest,
mushroom hunting, kinokogari　茸狩
picking mushrooms, kinoko tori 茸採り（きのことり）
bag for mushrooms, kinoko kago 茸籠（きのこかご）
mat to spread mushrooms to dry, kinoko mushiro 茸筵（たけむしろ）


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Kuritake 栗茸 (Chestnut mushroom)
By LINDA INOKI, the Japan Times



Autumn is a wonderful season to walk in the woods, where mushrooms spring up like little miracles from their invisible parent plants. Mushroom-hunting is very popular in Japan, but when the tasty kuritake, or chestnut mushroom, appears, hunters know that the end of the season is nigh. This attractive species (Naematoloma sublateritium) grows in clusters of up to 20 on the dead stumps of trees, such as chestnuts and oaks. The tops of their caps are a brick red color fading to a creamy yellow, and as the mushrooms age, the caps often split to reveal slashes of white flesh.

Unlike green plants, fungi cannot produce their own food and rely on ready-made carbohydrates from the environment around them. This means that they are either parasites or saprophytes, feeding on either living or dead organic matter, such as trees and plants. Chestnut mushrooms are saprophytes, a group that helps in the vital work of recycling the forest.

Sometimes people mistake the bitter yellow nigakuritake (the sulfur tuft or N. fasciculare ) for a chestnut mushroom, which is unfortunate because it is deadly poisonous.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20051102li.htm

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Early Winter


Enokidake 榎茸 (えのきだけ) velvet shank
Flammulina velutipes
Enokitake-Pilz



Yukiwaritake 雪割茸 (ゆきわりたけ) "snow splitting mushroom"
yukitake, snow mushroom 雪茸（ゆきたけ）
yuki no shita 雪下茸（ゆきのした）雪の下（ゆきのした）
..... yukiyari ゆきやり
speciality of Hokkaido. Biologically, it is not clear what kind of family this belongs to, maybe a kind of enoki or nameko.


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All Winter


kandake 寒茸 (かんたけ) mushrooms in the cold


Nameko なめこ nameko mushroom
Pholiota nameko
..... nametake なめたけ
nameko soup, namekojiru 滑子汁（なめこじる）
A small, amber-brown mushroom with a slightly gelatinous coating, It is enjoyed in miso soup and nabemono hodgepodges.
der Nameko


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WASHOKU
Mushrooms as Japanese Food
with more KIGO



eringi エリンギ king trumpet mushroom
Mannstreu- oder Kräuterseitling


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Worldwide use

Germany

Pilze, Pilzesuche, Steinpilze, Butterpilze, Fliegenpilze


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

手の前に蝶の息つく茸哉
te no mae ni chô no ikitsuku kinoko kana

it's all yours
butterfly, take a rest
on the mushroom



ぞくぞくと人のかまはぬ茸哉
zoku-zoku to hito no kamawanu kinoko kana

one by one
ignored by people...
mushrooms



念仏のころりと出たる茸哉
nembutsu no korori to detaru kinoko kana

a "Praise Buddha!"
pops to my lips...
mushrooms

Amida Prayer (Namu Amida Butsu)



うつくしやあら美しや毒きのこ
utsukushi ya ara utsukushi ya doku kinoko

it's so pretty!
so pretty!
the poison mushroom

Is this haiku metaphorical? Shinji Ogawa thinks so:
"It can be argued that the haiku alludes to feminine beauty."

More haiku by Issa / Tr. David Lanoue

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My voice
Vanishes in the wind:
Mushroom-hunting.

Masaoka Shiki (1866-1902)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20051102li.htm

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fog rising -
mushrooms push aside
a bed of pine needles

(Published in: The Heron's Nest VI:11, 2004)

H. Curtis Dunlap
http://webwiseguy.com/haiku/1.html

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matsutake ya
shiranu ko-no-ha no
nebaritsuku

[Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694]

o dear mushroom !
an unknown leaf
is sticking on to you

Tr. Gabi Greve


Дорогой грибок,
прилепился к тебе
неизвестный листик.

Tr. Russian : Zhanna P. Rader


mój drogi grzybie!
lepi się do ciebie liść
nie wiadomo skąd

Tr. Polish : Grzegorz Sionkowski

Read the discussion evolving about the translation of this haiku ! (April 2006)


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mushroom or toadstool
take your pick
—carefully

doris kasson
August 2009

. . . CLICK here for toadstool Photos !


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WASHOKU ... Japanese Food SAIJIKI


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