Wax tree (haze) and fish

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Wax tree (haze)

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

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Explanation

Wax tree, haze no ki, kooro 黄櫨
a kind of sumac, sumach

Rhus succedanea (Japanese wax tree)
Rhus verniciflua (Japanese sumac tree)



wax tree blossoms, haze no hana
黄櫨の花、はぜのはな
summer haze, ナツハゼ（夏黄櫨）
kigo for summer

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fruit of the wax tree, haze no mi 黄櫨の実, はぜのみ
"wax tree", roo no ki 蝋の木, ろうのき
mountain wax tree, yama haze 山黄櫨,やまはぜ

red leaves of the wax tree, haze momiji 黄櫨もみじ

haze no mi 櫨の実 (はぜのみ)nuts of the Japanese wax tree
..... haji no mi はじの実（はじのみ


taking the wax from the tree, haze chigiri 櫨ちぎり,はぜちぎり
..... haze toru 櫨採
kigo for late autumn

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The wax (Japanese wax ジャパン・ワックス) is taken after the red leaves of autumn are gone. It is used to make Japanese candles.

I also enjoy a strong honey from this tree.

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A Haiku and Poetry Magazine called "Kooro"



©　黄　櫨（こうろ）

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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way


The wax and wane of Uchiko 内子町, 四国

Read about an amazing place in Shikoku !

It was famous for its vegetable wax production around 1800.

Wax candle maker in Uchiko



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HAIKU

ひと枝のはぜ赤々と抜け出せり
hitoeda no haze akaaka to nuke daseri

one branch
of the red, red wax tree
sticking out

© あきら俳句集 Akira Haiku Collection
http://park6.wakwak.com/~zakkayasan/haikua2.htm




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Related words

***** Candles (roosoku)

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***** Japanese dace, haze 鮠, 鯊, 沙魚（はぜ）
kigo for all autumn



The gobies are a family (the Gobiidae) of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish belonging to order Perciformes.
Gobioidei family / Wikipedia

........................................ Some kigo related to the dace fish

"real dace, mahaze 真鯊（まはぜ）
..... chichibu ちちぶ、donko どんこ、furuseふるせ

black dace, kurohaze 黒鯊（くろはぜ）
red dace, akahaze 赤鯊（あかはぜ）
"Tiger dace" tora haze 虎鯊（とらはぜ）
flying dace, tobihaze 飛鯊（とびはぜ）

fishing for dace, haze tsuri 鯊釣（はぜつり）
rod for fishing dace, hazesao 鯊の竿（はぜのさお）
boat for dace fishing, hazebune 鯊舟（はぜぶね）

sunny day for fishing dace, haze biyori 鯊日和（はぜびより）
"autumn of the dace", haze no aki 鯊の秋（はぜのあき）

drying dace, haze hosu 鯊干す（はぜほす）



ハゼばかり釣れて気遣う船主かな
haze bakari tsurite kichigau senshu kana

fishing only dace
makes him all crazy -
the ship owner

http://nojisan.no-blog.jp/nojisanhaiku/2006/11/post_5d68.html

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kigo for mid-summer

mugiwarahaze, mugiwara hazw 麦藁鯊 (むぎわらはぜ)
"wheat straw dace"
fished at the river 涸沼川 near the town of Mito, Ibaraki.



FISH and SEAFOOD SAIJIKI


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