稲美里佳の短歌：Tanka by Rika Inami (10)

 

 

 

 

※ 写真は秋田県仙北市刺巻湿原の水芭蕉群生地で撮りました。

About the photo, it is Mizubasho, which is called Skunk Cabbage in English.

I use its Japanese name, Mizubasho.  I took the photo at Sashimaki Moor Mizubasho Colony, Senboku City, Akita, Japan.

 

 

 

 

※ 秋田県仙北市刺巻湿原では水芭蕉の他にザゼンソウも咲いていました。

座禅草という名前は僧侶が座禅を組む姿に似ているから付けられたそうです。

ザゼンソウの別名は達磨草（ダルマソウ)です。

Zazenso is also blooming in Sashimaki Moor Mizubasho Colony, Senboku City, Akita , Japan. Zazenso’s English name is Eastern Skunk Cabbage. Japanese name Zazenso is from Zazen, which is a Buddhism’s word and the form of meditation. It is said that the flower form is like Zazen.   When coming out, it has fever and melts snow around it. Another name is Daruma-so, which is from a Buddhist priest Daruma.

 

 

写真は本日の当地の桜です。鶸色（ひわいろ）は日本の伝統色です。

The photo is today’s cherry tree April 16^th. Hiwairo is one of  Japanese traditional colors and it is from the color of the bird Siskin’s feather.

 

 

 

 

 

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遂に当地でも桜が開花しました。

At last cherry trees start blooming on April 20^th. 2018

 

 

 

 

 

※ 写真は秋田県横手市の横手公園の桜まつりです。

横手公園には横手城があり＜お城山＞ともいわれています。

 

As for the photograph, it is Sakura Festival of Yokote Park, in Yokote City,

Akita, Japan.

There is Yokote Castle in the park,  so it is also called the castle-mountain / Oshiro-Yama お城山.

 

 

 

 

 

※  写真は秋田県仙北市角館の武家屋敷通りの枝垂れ桜です。

About the photo, it is a drooping (weeping) cherry tree on the Samurai Houses Street in Kakunodate, Senboku City, Akita, Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

※ 5月5日は子どもの日です。写真は秋田県湯沢市皆瀬で撮りました。子どもの日はもともとは男の子の端午の節句でしたが、1948年に子どもの日に制定されました。女の子のお節句の雛祭は3月3日になっています。

May 5^th is Children’s Day in Japan. The photo was taken at Minase Dam, in Minase, Yuzawa City, Akita, Japan. On that day, the family having the boy raises carp streamers or display the dolls for boys such as Samurai Doll, wishing for their boy’s happiness and good health. Children’s Day was originally for boys festival called Tango-no-Sekku but it was designated a national holiday as Children’s Day by the Japanese government in 1948. By the way, girls’ festival called Hina Dolls Festival is March 3^th in Japan.

 

編集　蛭田秀法

Edited by Hidenori Hiruta