Plum Blossoms Fragrance (ume ga ka)

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Fragrant plum blossoms (ume ga ka)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Early Spring
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


Please read the main entry on the plum blossoms here:
Plum Blossoms (ume)

The fragrance of plum blossoms, scent, smell .... if you ever walked in a plum grove in early spring you will know the feeling !

I wrote this haiku in 2006



taking a nose walk
in the plum park -
Kume no Sato

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Fragrant plum blossoms, ume ga ka, ume-ga-ka　梅が香　
plum blossom scent, plum blossom perfume

ume ga ka is a poetic version of saying: ume no hana no kaori

"smell of a plum" would rather indicate the smell of one plum fruit.

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Things found on the way

Plum blossoms
are an outer proof of life's inner beauty in this spring poem by
Ki no Tomonori (Kokinshu, 1:38)

I am at a loss
To say to whom if not to you
I might show plum blossoms;
For such beauty and such fragrance
Only the best judge is a judge at all.

[The Princeton Companion, p. 28.]
(Copyright © 1990 Theosophical University Press)

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HAIKU

ume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana
梅が香にのっと日の出る山路かな



in the fragrance of plum blossoms
the sun comes out -
this mountain path . . .

Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉　

MORE translations and discussion
. WKD : Izumo Kaido Doi Town 出雲街道　美作市土居宿 .



written at Ochiai on the
. Nakasendoo　中山道 The Nakasendo Road .


MORE plum fragrance hokku by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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Some haiku by Kobayashi Issa

梅がかに鼬もないて通りけり
ume ga ka ni itachi mo naite toori keri

plum blossom scent--
even the weasel passes
with a song


梅がかに障子ひらけば月夜哉
ume ga ka ni shôji hirakeba tsuki yo kana

plum blossom scent--
when I open my paper screen
a bright moon


梅がかにうかれ出けり不精猫
ume ga ka ni ukare ide keri bushô neko

plum blossom scent
sends him off carousing...
lazy cat


Read all of his 20 haiku here, translated by David Lanoue

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One more by Issa, tr. David Lanoue

梅がかやどなたが来ても欠茶碗
ume ga ka ya donata ga kite mo kake chawan

plum blossom scent--
for whoever shows up
a cracked teacup


.. .. .. .. .. and another by Kikaku, which has the same flavor

ume ga ka ya　kojiki no ie mo　nozokaruru

Kikaku 其角

fragrant plum blossoms -
even in the beggar's home
they are peeking in

(Tentavive English version by Gabi Greve)

More about Translating this Haiku


plum-blossom scent:
even a beggar's shack
is worth a look

Tr. Larry Bole

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ume-ga-ka mo kasumo to narinu kuni-zakai

at the border
even the plum perfume
turns freckles

Niji Fuyuno (Tr. Susumu Takiguchi)
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/tribute_nijisan.shtml

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Related words

***** Plum Blossoms (ume)


***** Smell and Fragrance in Haiku

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