Carpe Diem #653, Yuzuriha
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| Credits: Yuzuriha flowers (cultivated) |
yuzuriha blooms
the star in every pairing
cheerful start to year
PR
1/22/15
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Daily Archives: January 22, 2015
RESOLVE
Carpe Diem’s Haiku Writing Techniques #3, Repetition & Carpe Diem Special #128, Sogi’s 4th haiku
RESOLVE
with renewed resolve
she faced what’s coming down the road
none should travel such a road
PR
1/21/15
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PHEASANT’S EYE
Carpe Diem Prompt:
PHEASANTS EYE
first gaze fell on this
cheerful yellow pheasant’s eye
all’s good in new year
PR
1/22/2015
For Further Reading on Pheasant’s eye
It turned out to be a flower which was special for New Year. Pheasant’s eye, fukujusō, New Year’s Day Plant. It grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, and so it came known as Pheasant’s Eye or New Year’s Day plant. Even now some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January.
In the Edo period, it was already artificially grown and sold in small pots, with petals of white, cream and red flowers, even double-petals. The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, “prosperity grass” or “longevity grass”, so it was very auspicious for the New Year celebrations.
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