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IN BLOOM

ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Sep 13, 2001
Kikyo (Bellflower)
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Sep 6, 2001
Nadeshiko (Japanese pink)
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 30, 2001
Igusa (reeds)
"Our house was right next to the lake. You could look out of the window and see the reeds waving in the wind and listen to the reed warblers. It was a nuisance having to haul buckets of lake-water for the bath all the way into the house, so from April to November we used to leave the tub by the lake. A little roof of plaited reeds was put up over it to keep the rain off."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 23, 2001
Hirugao (Small bindweed)
"In the bindweed flower On Takamado Moor I see my darling's face. And how could I forget?"
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 16, 2001
Yama-torikabuto (Japanese monkshood)
"Pipichari has given mea small quantity of the poisonous paste, and has also taken me to see the plant from the root of which it is made, the Aconitum japonicum, a monkshood, whose tall spikes of blue flowers are brightening the brushwood in all directions. The Ainos [sic] say that if a man is accidentally wounded by a poison arrow, the only cure is immediate excision of the part."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 9, 2001
Kusa (Meadow grasses)
"It's Bon, it's Bon -- but Only today and tomorrow. The next day we're up in the hillsCutting grass for fodder."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Aug 2, 2001
Yamayuri (Golden-rayed lily)
"The snake fleeing away, The mountain is silent. This lily flower!"
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jul 26, 2001
Chosen asagao (Korean morning glory)
"Kae stretched out her hands and snatched the cold, wet flowers. One after the other she picked them in defiance, as she was too upset merely to contemplate their rapaciousness and beauty. 'Do you know the name of that flower?' inquired a voice overhead. Kae had been too engrossed to hear footsteps. Clutching the flowers, the frightened girl stiffened, looked up at her husband, and tried to concentrate on the question."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jul 19, 2001
Kyochikuto (Oleander)
"Today, while Mother was watching me work, she suddenly remarked, 'they say that people who like summer flowers die in the summer. I wonder if it's true?' I did not answer but went on watering the eggplants. It is already the beginning of summer. She continued softly, 'I am very fond of hibiscus, but we haven't a single one in this garden.' " 'We have plenty of oleanders,' I answered in an intentionally sharp tone. 'I don't like them. I like almost all summer flowers, but oleanders are too loud.' "
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jul 12, 2001
Canna
"Among these tottering houses, with their moldering earthen walls which wind and rain would soon return to the soil, the vigor of life could be glimpsed only in the vegetation, in the occasional shock of a blossoming sunflower or canna."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jul 5, 2001
Asagao (Morning glory)
"Leading Mother to our old-fashioned well, I told her the legend of the maiden who went to a well to draw water and, finding a morning glory tendril twined about the handle of the bucket, went away rather than break the tender vine. She planted the seeds around the well curb while I softly hummed, over and over, the old poem: 'The morning glory tendril has chained my heart. Let it be: I'll beg water of my neighbor.' "
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jun 28, 2001
Benihana (Safflower)
"The dew of the rouge-flower, When it is spilled Is simply water."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jun 21, 2001
Tsuyu-kusa (Dew flower)
"It was true then: he had after all the shifting hue of the dewflower. She had heard about that. She had heard, albeit in general terms, that men were good at lying, that many a sweet word went into the pretense of love."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jun 14, 2001
Gaku-ajisai (Lace-cap hydrangea)
"We rode for some time within hearing of the Kinugawa River with an undergrowth of red azaleas, blue hydrangea the very blue of heaven, yellow raspberries, ferns. The redundancy of the vegetation was truly tropical, and the brilliancy and variety of its living greens, dripping with recent rain, were enhanced by the slant rays of the afternoon sun."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Jun 7, 2001
Dokudami (lizard's tail)
"Only the very richest people could afford to call the doctor out to visit them if they were sick. Country people used to pick plants like green gentian, cranesbill and lizard's tail when they went up into the mountains to avoid, as much as possible, having to rely on the services of a doctor."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
May 24, 2001
Mizu-basho (Asian skunk cabbage)
"When summer comes, I think of Oze Under distant skies. Midst rising mists and shadowed ways Marsh lilies are blooming, And dreams are flowering, too. Where evening tints, azalea pink, Those far-off, distant skies."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
May 17, 2001
Shi-ran (wild orchid)
"How pitiful it was, This thin weak orchid But it has budded!"
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
May 10, 2001
Fuji (wisteria)
"Now that I have reached the age of 60, and my life seems about to evaporate like the dew, I have fashioned a lodging for the last leaves of my years. It is a hut where, perhaps, a traveler might spend a single night. Creeping vines block the trails and the valleys are overgrown, but to the west is a clearing, and my surroundings thus do not leave me without spiritual comfort. In the spring I see waves of wisteria like purple clouds, bright in the west."
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
May 3, 2001
Hana Shobu (Japanese iris)
There is nothing to equal the Festival of the Fifth Month, when the scents of the iris and sagebrush mingle so charmingly. The children are proud of themselves and keep looking at the flowers on their sleeves, comparing them with those of their companions. This is all delightful, as are the little pages who play with the girls and snatch away their iris, making them burst into tears.
ENVIRONMENT / IN BLOOM
Apr 26, 2001
Tsutsuji (azalea)
Presently two nuns clad in dark robes were seen making their way slowly and painfully down through the rough rocks of the mountainside. The Priestly Sovereign asked who they were, and the nun replied, "The one carrying a basket of mountain azaleas on her arm is the former Empress and the other, with a load of bracken for burning, is the daughter of Korezane."
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