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1/28/2008

Hibiscus (bussooge)

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Hibiscus (bussooge)

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


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Explanation


hibiscus, bussooge 仏桑花 (ぶっそうげ)
fusooka 扶桑花(ふそうか)
kookin 紅槿(こうきん)

"rose of sharon from Okinawa", ryuukyuu mukuge
琉球木槿(りゅうきゅうむくげ)
also called : Rose of China, rosa sinensis

haibisukasu ハイビスカス, はいびすかす

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Hibiscus, or rosemallow, is a large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae (the mallow family, along with members like cocoa, cotton, okra, baobab and durian) native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, and woody shrubs and small trees.

The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to lanceolate, often with a toothed or lobed margin.

The flowers are large, conspicuous, trumpet-shaped, with five or more petals, ranging from white to pink, red, purple or yellow, and from 4-15 cm broad.

The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Bunga Raya or "Chinese hibiscus") is the national flower of Malaysia.
The ma‘o hau hele (Hibiscus brackenridgei) is the state flower of Hawai‘i.

The Hibiscus syriacus (Mugunghwa or "Rose of Sharon") is the national flower of South Korea.

The Native Hibiscus is a national emblem of the Stolen Generation of indigenous peoples in Australia. Its colour denotes compassion and spiritual healing.

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kigo for late summer

ooshokki 黄蜀葵 (おうしょっき) Tororo aoi
..... tororo aoi とろろあおい (also Nebishi)
Abelmoschus manihot Medic. (Hibiscus manihot L.)
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ginsenka 銀盞花 (ぎんせんか) Flower-of-the-hour
..... fueisoo 富栄草(ふえいそう)
..... choorosoo 朝露草(ちょうろそう) "morning dew plant"
Hibiscus trionum


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kigo for all winter

tororo aoi tsuku 黄蜀葵搗く (とろろあおいつく)
pounding tororo aoi


kan nori 寒糊 (かんのり) glue made in the cold
from the root of the Tororo aoi plant.

This plant is used to make Japanese paper.


WKD : Paper making and related kigo


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Worldwide use

Yemen

topic for the whole year

Many are familiar with the striking flowers of the hibiscus which can be seen swaying freely in the breeze. It is not really surprising that the name is attributed the meaning of "delicate beauty". There are thousands of hues and combinations involving six basic colors in the color pattern, white, yellow, orange, pink and brown. The flowers can be singles or doubles. The hibiscus, an evergreen shrub, reaches about four meters.
© When Yemen Blooms



Akhraba's rose of sharon
circling
on my way home


Heike Gewi, Yemen 2008


YEMEN SAIJIKI


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HAIKU


仏桑花六月晦日年の臍
bussooge rokugatsu misoka toshi no heso

hibiscus
last day of June
the navel of the year


Fuuten Tora
© おしゃべり日記俳句


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***** Rose of Sharon, althea, mukuge 木槿
kigo for early autumn
mokuge

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fence with the rose of Sharon,
mukuge gaki 木槿垣(むくげがき)


white rose of Sharon, shiro mukuge白木槿(しろむくげ)
red rose of Sharon, beni mukuge 紅木槿(べにむくげ)


blossoms of the rose of Sharon, hana mukuge
花木槿(はなむくげ)、kihachisu きはちす


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- The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu -

Little understanding cannot come up to great understanding;
the shortlived cannot come up to the long-lived.

How do I know this is so? The morning mushroom knows nothing of twilight and dawn; the summer cicada knows nothing of spring and autumn. They are the short-lived. South of Ch'u there is a caterpillar which counts five hundred years as one spring and five hundred years as one autumn.
Long, long ago there was a great rose of Sharon that counted eight thousand years as one spring and eight thousand years as one autumn. They are the long-lived. Yet P'eng-tsu alone is famous today for having lived a long time, and everybody tries to ape him. Isn't it pitiful!

Translated by Burton Watson
source : terebess.hu


. Chinese background of Japanese kigo .


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The Rose of Sharon is a flower of uncertain identity mentioned in English language translations of the Bible. The word in question is the Hebrew, which has been uncertainly linked to the words, meaning 'bulb', and , which is understood as meaning either 'pungent' or 'splendid'. The name first appears in 1611, when it was used in the King James Version of the Bible. According to an annotation at Song of Solomon 2.1 by the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, this is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "crocus".

Today, the name is also commonly applied to two different plants, neither of which is likely to have been the plant from the Bible:

Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and the plant generally referred to in British and Australian English as "Rose of Sharon";

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Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, the plant generally referred to in American English as "Rose of Sharon" and the national flower of South Korea. The flower's name in Korean is mugunghwa (Korean Hangul: 무궁화, Hanja: 無窮花).
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道のべの木槿は馬にくはれけり
michinobe no mukuge wa uma ni kuwarekeri

Blooming by the road
mallow flowers
eaten by the horse


Matsuo Basho
Tr. Bin AKIO


roadside rose of
sharon devoured
by my horse

Tr. Barnhill


by the road
a rose mallow ... it has been
eaten by my horse!

Tr. Ueda


As for the hibiscus
on the roadside—
my horse ate it.

Tr. Hass


Am Straßenrand
die Sharonrose, von meinem Pferd
gefressen

Tr. Udo Wenzel


The cut marker KERI is at the end of line 3.

Nozarashi Kiko
On the day of crossing the river Oigawa 大井川.

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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酒冷すちょろちょろ川の槿哉
sake hiyasu choro-choro kawa no mukuge kana

cooling my sake
in a bubbeling stream -
Rose of Sharon



あつぱれに咲揃ふ昼の槿哉
appare ni saki-sorou hiru no mukuge kana

splendidly blooming
en masse, midday's
roses of Sharon

Tr. David Lanoue


. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 - Introduction . .


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hibiscus friends

White hibiscus friends
Gabi Greve, August 2010


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. PLANTS IN SUMMER - SAIJIKI

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Oleander (kyoochikutoo)

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Oleander (kyoochikutoo)

***** Location: Japan, Yemen
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Plant


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Explanation


Oleander, kyoochikutoo 夾竹桃 (きょうちくとう)
キョウチクトウ
kyooshuutoo 叫出冬(きょうしゅつとう)

"half year red", hannenkoo 半年紅(はんねんこう)
"peach leaf red", tooyookoo 桃葉紅(とうようこう)

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Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. Other names include Adelfa, Alheli Extranjero, Baladre, Espirradeira, Flor de São Jose, Laurel de jardín, Laurel rosa, Laurier rose, Flourier rose, Olean, Aiwa, Rosa Francesca, Rosa Laurel, and Rose-bay, Araliya (in Sinhalese); in Chinese it is known as 夹竹桃 (jia zhu tao). The ancient city of Volubilis in North Africa took its name from the old Latin name for the flower.



It is native to a broad area from Morocco and Portugal eastward through the Mediterranean region and southern Asia to Yunnan in southern parts of China.
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In the Bible, the oleander plant is referred to as "the desert rose".
Historical records show that the Mesopotamians in the 15th century BC believed in the healing properties of oleander. The Babylonians used a mixture of oleander and licorice to treat hangovers. Roman soldiers also regularly took an oleander extract for hangovers. Pliny, the Elder of ancient Greece, wrote about the appearance and properties of oleander. Arab physicians first used oleander as a cancer treatment in the 8th century AD.

Read more:
 © A Brief History Of The Oleander Plant


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kigo for late summer

oiransoo 花魁草 (おいらんそう) "Geisha Plant"
kusa kyoochikutoo 草夾竹桃(くさきょうちくとう)"plant oleander"
Phlox paniculata


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Worldwide use

Yemen

kigo for winter

Oleander
One of the most striking and widely grown plants is the common oleander or pink oleander. It displays its attractive and delicate flowers clusters on branch and twig tips and we are blessed with its long duration of bloom. Both the single and double flowers have a varied color range: pale and dark pink, salmon, white. The single flowers, pale pink form with its five petal can be seen growing wild in the wadis. It is normally a broad and bulky evergreen shurb, which grows in dense clumps and reaches up to four meter high and wide. Noticeable are the narrow, long dark green leaves with a vein down the center.
© When Yemen Blooms


Oleander -
night tumbling, white
its fragrance still at the branch


Heike Gewi, Yemen 2008


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HAIKU


Red oleander and
hibiscus calling morning
to Kali


 © R.K.Singh, India


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fragrant morning
a pink oleander gently
rubs her shoulder


- Shared by Satwinder Singh -
The Tea Room, facebook, 2012



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***** YEMEN SAIJIKI


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6/18/2007

Jasmine

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Jasmin, Jasmine (jasumin)

***** Location: Japan, other areas
***** Season: Late Summer
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***** Category: Plant


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Explanation

Jasmin, matsurika 茉莉花 (まつりか)
..... sokei 素馨(そけい)
..... jasumin ジャスミン

American Jasmin アメリカジャスミン

Jasminum officinale is the most common one referred to in haiku. It is the national flower of Pakistan. In Persian, it is originally called "yasmin".

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Jasmine or Jessamine (Jasminum)
is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae), with about 200 species, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World. The majority of species grow as climbers on other plants or on structures. The leaves can be either evergreen or deciduous, and are opposite in most species; leaf shape is simple, trifoliate or pinnate with up to nine leaflets.

Jasmine flowers are generally white, although some species have yellow flowers. Unlike most genera in the Oleaceae which have four corolla lobes ("petals"), jasmines often have five or six lobes. They are often strongly and sweetly scented. Flowering is in spring or summer in most species, but in a few species, notably J. nudiflorum, in winter on the bare branches of this deciduous species.

Jasminum sambac is also the National Flower of Indonesia, where it is known as "Melati", and of the Philippines, where it is known as "Sampaguita". In Indonesia (especially the island of Java), it is the most important flower in wedding ceremonies for ethnic Indonesians. Jasminum officinale is the national flower of Pakistan, where it is known as the "Chameli" or "Yasmine". In Sanskrit it is called Mallika. Jasmine is cultivated at Pangala, in Karnataka, India, and exported to Middle East countries.

In Thailand, jasmine flowers are used as a symbol of the mother.

J. fluminense is an invasive species in Hawaii, where it is sometimes known by the inaccurate name "Brazilian Jasmine". J. dichotomum is also invasive in Florida.

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winter jasmine, Jasminum nudiflorum
kigo for winter

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Worldwide use

If you find jasmine blossoms in spring in your area, then this is a kigo for your spring.
Let us know the area and your haiku about it, please.


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Florida, USA




the arid voice of spring
lingering in bamboo
wild jasmine


- Shared by Sandi Pray -
Joys of Japan, 2012


Starry Wild Jasmine - Jasminum multipartitum

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Yemen

kigo for summer

... today’s Yemenites seem to prefer bright blossoms and the heavy sweetness of jasmine. Street vendors sell jasmine garlands along with khat (a narcotic pinch between cheek and gum). At commencement exercises, it’s become customary to shower the graduates with jasmine petals, much lovelier than a flurry of mortar boards.

Read more HERE
... www.humanflowerproject.com



crickets
in wild jasmine..
night chat


breath taking
she beads blooms ..
jasmine necklace


In camel tracks
jasmine petals..
singing garland vendor



Jasmin garlands are also use as wedding decorations. If you see a lady preparing a garland, you would immediately ask her: "To whose wedding are you invited?"

Heike Gewi, Yemen, January 2008



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modern haiku
one more jasmine bloom
lights up the trellis


paul t conneally, UK

A Tribute to Robert Spiess
(1921 - 2002)


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maybe
she is flying over Alaska
faint scent of jasmine

YASUOMI KOGANEI, JP

možda
ona leti preko Aljaske
slab miris jasmina

Tr. Karolina Riječka

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Compiled by Larry Bole


"jasmine"
the sound itself
is scented


Larry Bole


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jasmine
we arrange our chairs
to face upwind


Ferris Gilli


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a little escape
from the world and its affairs -
the scent of jasmine

Tom Tico
The Heron's Nest, Volume VII, Number 4: December, 2005


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morning haze
she tries jasmine
in her hair


Maria Steyn
The Heron's Nest, Volume III, Number 10: December, 2001

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moonlight
drifting through darkness
jasmine


hortensia anderson


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slightly dizzy,
I collect a jasmine -
evening arrived


Alex Serban, Romania

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first moist breeze -
fragrance of Jasmine reaches
my dinner table


- Shared by Surmeet Maavi, India -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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a long journey ...
the lingering scent
of juhi flowers




juhi - Jasminum auriculatum
The flower is held sacred to all forms of Goddess Devi and is used as sacred offerings during Hindu religious ceremonies.
source : www.flowersofindia.ne


- Shared by Sandip Sital Chauhan -
Joys of Japan, July 2012



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***** . Jasminum sambac - Sampaguita .
Philippines

***** . Parijaat blossoms - Night Jasmine"
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Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
India


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