Deutzia blossoms (u no hana)

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Deutzia blossom (u no hana)

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

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Explanation

deutzia blossoms, u no hana 卯の花 (うのはな)
..... utsugi no hana 空木の花（うつぎのはな）
..... hana utsugi 花仰木（はなうつぎ）

hedge of deutzia blossoms, unohana gaki
卯の花垣（うのはながき）
This kind of hedge is quite popular in Japan.


deutzia from Hakone, Hakone utsugi
箱根うつぎ（はこねうつぎ）



deutzia with yellow blossoms, kibana utsugi
黄花うつぎ（きばなうつぎ）
..... ukon uzuki うこんうつぎ

"brocade deutzia", nishiki utsugi
錦うつぎ（にしきうつぎ）
..... biroodo utsugi びろうどうつぎ

deutzia in the valley, tani utsugi 谷うつぎ（たにうつぎ）
deutzia in the underbush, yabu utsugi
藪うつぎ（やぶうつぎ）




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Deutzia is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to eastern and central Asia (from the Himalaya east to Japan and the Philippines), and Central America and also Europe. By far the highest species diversity is in China, where 50 species occur.

The species are shrubs ranging from 1-4 m in height. Most are deciduous, but a few subtropical species are evergreen. The leaves are opposite, simple, with a serrated margin. The flowers are produced in panicles or corymbs; they are white in most species, sometimes pink or reddish. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous small seeds. Identification of the species is very difficult, requiring often microscopic detail of the leaf hairs and seed capsule structure.

Deutzias are commonly grown as ornamental plants for their white flowers.
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moon in the month when the deutzia is blooming
u no hana zuki 卯の花月（うのはなづき）
... uzuki 卯月 (うづき)
haiku category: season

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"tofu-dregs getting rotten" (u no hana kutashi
　(kudashi) 卯の花腐し

A kind of rain in the old lunar month of may, when it gets hot and warm and the tofu starts rotting soon. During the old lunar month of april and may, the rain was very long (but not yet the rainy season)

..... unohana kudashi 卯の花腐し（うのはなくだし）
..... 卯の花降し（うのはなくだし）
haiku category: heaven



Scrambled tofu dregs are also prepared in a dish of "unohana". It is a common home food, tasting of "mother's cooking".
Okara and Unohana ...




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HAIKU

卯の花の花なきさへうられけり
u no hana no hana no naki sae urare keri

a deutzia shrub
even without blossoms...
for sale

Kobayashi Issa
Tr. David Lanoue



u no hana ya kodomo no tsukuru tsuchi dango

deutzia in bloom
children make
mud-dumplings

Issa
Tr. David Lanoue
Kasamori Fox Shrine and mud-dumplings

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卯の花を めがけてきたか 時鳥
unohana o megakete kita ka hototogisu

aiming at
deutzia blossoms
little cuckoo

Masaoka Shiki , Ehime, Matsuyama

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the sun remains
in the deutzia flowers--
under cloudy skies

©　Chiyo-Jo
Chiyo-Jo Haiku Museum


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