Pheasant's eye (fukujusoo)
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Pheasant's Eye (fukujusoo, Japan)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: New Year
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
Pheasant's eye, fukujusō, 福寿草
New Year's Day Plant,
... ganjitsusoo, ganjitsusō 元日草
... tsuitachisoo 朔日草
Adonis amurensis, Family: Ranunculaceae. Crowfoot
Grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, hence the name.
Even now some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January.
In the Edo period, it was already artificially grown and sold in small pots, with petals of white, cream and red flowers, even double-petals (yae 八重咲き).
The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, "prosperity grass" or "longevity grass", so it was very auspicious for the New Year celebrations.
Gabi Greve
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http://www.dynax.co.jp/sinsen/photo/hana_koyomi/gf_fukujyusou.html
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Great page with photos
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/BotanicalGarden/HTMLs/fukujusou.html
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
大雪をかぶって立や福寿草
ôyuki o kabutte tatsu ya fukuju kusa
covered by the big snow
yet they stand...
New Year's grasses
Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)
Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sakuo3903/archives/50332688.html
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朝日さす 老師が家や 福寿草
morning sunshine
on the old teacher's home -
Pheasant's eye in bloom
Buson 与謝蕪村
(Tr. Gabi Greve)
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日のあたる 窓の硝子や 福寿草
永井荷風
Photo
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/akiiys/e/12c83638afc11a6eaff747a5e925cff1
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Related words
***** Fern and the Seven Herbs of Spring
Kigo for the New Year
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posted by Gabi Greve @ 4/08/2006
2 Comments:
Gabi san
有難うございます。
いろんな福寿草で楽しいですね。
これらの福寿草を見ていると本当に
春が待ちどうしい気になります。
sakuo
Gabi san, I enjoyed these photos and Sakuo's haiga.
Your Pheasant flower must be related to our winter aconites?
Here's a Canadian photo:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum/PhotoGall/PhotoFlower10.htm
And here's one with the full name (and ultra violet light!)
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_ERAN_HYE.html
I had them in one of my gardens, many years ago...
:~)
Canada
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