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Rape blossoms (na no hana, nanohana)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Spring
***** Category: Flower
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Explanation
rape blossoms, rape flower, na no hana 菜の花
..... hana na 花菜（はなな）
rape seed blossoms, natane no hana 菜種の花（なたねのはな）
..... natane na 菜種菜
"oil flowers" abura na 油菜
mustard flowers
na-no-hana
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© Photo Gabi Greve, April 2007
WASHOKU : Dishes using rapeseed blossoms
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as Rape, Oilseed Rape, Rapa, Rapaseed and (one particular variety) Canola, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family). The name is derived through Old English from a term for turnip, rapum (see Brassica napobrassica, which may be considered a variety of Brassica napus). Some botanists include the closely related Brassica campestris within B. napus.
The rape plant, which grows to a height of 50 to 100 cm, flowers in spring with petals measuring about 1 cm. After blossoming, it bears slim fruit with bill-shaped projections. Once ripe, the fruits eject very small dark brown seeds, which are squeezed to produce rapeseed oil. The fatty acids extracted and refined from this oil contain high amounts of erucic acid.
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
Ichimen no Na no Hana / Rape Blossoms Everywhere
”一面の菜の花”: いちめんのなのはな
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HAIKU
藪の菜のだまって咲て居たりけり
yabu no na no damatte saite itari keri
rape flowers
in the thicket, hushed
have bloomed
菜の花や西へむかへば善光寺
na no hana ya nishi e mukaeba zenkôji
flowering rape--
and looking west
Zenko Temple
Issa (Tr. David Lanoue)
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菜の花や 引残したる 窓の前
na no hana ya hikinokoshitaru mado no mae
Renshi 蓮之
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菜の花や月は東に日は西に
na no hana ya tsuki wa higashi ni hi wa nishini
rapeseed flowers -
the moon is in the east,
the sun in the west
・菜の花や 鯨もよらず 海暮れぬ
・菜の花を 墓に手向けん 金福寺
Buson "菜の花" 与謝蕪村
(Tr. Gabi Greve)
mustard flowers
with the moon in the east
the sun in the west
Tr. Ueda Makoto
Further discussion of this haiku
But why did Buson choose this flower for his poem (it comes with a lovely haiga by Buson, I could not locate yet...)
In his homeland, rapeseed was grown everywhere to prepare supplies of rapeseed oil for the lamps of the growing town of Edo. So the farmers were producing the "light" that could turn the night of Edo into a day.
This is a kind of nioizuke 匂い付け, letting us smell something ...
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rapeseed blossoms
the earth filled with
sunshine
© Gabi Greve / Spring in the Rice Fields 2007
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Related words
***** .. .. .. .. .. Flower, Cherry Blossom and Hana
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2 comments:
a blue butterfly
over the rapeseed flowers -
some poppies
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