Sunflower (himawari)

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Sunflower (himawari)

***** Location: Japan, Europa
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

sunflower, himawari 向日葵 (ひまわり)
"sun wheel", higuruma 日車（ひぐるま）
"sun wheel plant", nichirin soo 日輪草（にちりんそう）

Russian sun flower, roshia himawari ロシアひまわり
Indian Mallow, tenjiku aoi 天竺葵（てんじくあおい）
.... hyuuga aoi 日向葵（ひゅうがあおい）

canopy flower, tengai bana 天蓋花（てんがいばな）






The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas in the family Asteraceae, with a large flowering head (inflorescence). The stem of the flower can grow as high as 3 metres tall, with the flower head reaching up to 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds. The term "sunflower" is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants.
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Worldwide use

American Sonora

Sunflowers
Sonoran Saijiki


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Things found on the way

... Canopy (tengai) 天蓋 in a Buddhist Temple


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Sunflower - Flower of Flames




Sunflower, the Japanese can also read "Flames are covering everything", which is exactly what happened when Takagaki Mondo's home burned to the ground one chilling night in February.
He kept on working as a potter and one of his works is this object of Bizen earth and color, to be hung at the wall.
Now it is in the GokuRakuAn Gallery.

Takagaki Mondo at GokuRakuAn


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Himawari Daruma Doll


© PHOTO :　だるまさん色々



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HAIKU

sunflowers
drops of rain
and whispers

Rositza Pironska, Bulgaria, May 2008


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It's The Garden State.
I'd like to see sunflowers
dotting the Turnpike.

Read more haiku from New York
©　The Sunflower Project

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sonnenblume blickt
kraftlos zur erde, sehnt sich
nach wärme und licht

©　Ute Dewitz


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baking clay ...
the himawari doll
smiles

Heike Gewi, Yemen, 2008


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every day
she waits patiently -
lady in the shadow

Gabi Greve, August 2010
with PHOTO



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sunflowers --
black seedheads turned
to the earth

The sunflowers follow the sun faithfully from morning to night while growing, flowering and maturing. But in winter, when the seeds are ripe and the plant dies back, the heavy heads bend and turn towards the soil, where the seeds will spring to new life after the winter.

I hope that mentioning the black seedheads places the haiku in winter...

Isabelle Prondzynski
. Kigo Hotline



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Related words

***** Sunflower in Kenya
topic for haiku

cold grey morning -
the sunflower bowing
east

cold grey sunset -
the sunflower bowing
west

Partrick Wafula


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