tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post5942502642407045824..comments2017-04-13T20:58:40.892+09:00Comments on akitahaiku: Haiku about Spring (9)Hirutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16497892439884048723noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-82916671250242592892010-04-25T05:08:20.308+09:002010-04-25T05:08:20.308+09:00skunk cabbage –
late to see bloom,
a few remain bl...skunk cabbage –<br />late to see bloom,<br />a few remain bloomingPatricia Lidiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08869859772799520465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-47381723566838549742010-04-24T21:18:53.510+09:002010-04-24T21:18:53.510+09:00The translation of "cowslip" in Romanian...The translation of "cowslip" in Romanian is (botanically) "Robin boot" (robin as the bird) and it grows mainly in hilly areas and plains of prealpine. It cannot be used as a sezon word, since it grows starting from April until the end of summer, beginning of autumn. The basho tree does not exist in my country, maybe only in the botanic gardens.Patricia Lidiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08869859772799520465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-74222411205300431322010-04-22T23:02:48.692+09:002010-04-22T23:02:48.692+09:00thanks for sharing this lovely haiku couplet; i ha...thanks for sharing this lovely haiku couplet; i had to google what is zazen; i thought i had a slight notion but wasn't too clear; after my reasearch, i appreciate more your twin haiku presentation in this post<br /><br />much love<br />gillenaGillena Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191865405561549074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-47432527097293374762010-04-22T10:52:33.970+09:002010-04-22T10:52:33.970+09:00__Oh thank you, Hiruta, for your information; I ju...__Oh thank you, Hiruta, for your information; I just love the commonalities... the names of such similar plants! The world keeps getting smaller in a positive way.<br />__Interesting: some have reasoned that life on Earth began at the cross-roads of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and that that life extended through the 'million years travel' to Kashmir, then China and Manchuria and across the ice bridge to Alaska.<br />__At the Tigris/Euphrates there is a small boat roughly pronounced, KAI-YIK. The Eskimos of Alaska, of course, have (as do we all) their KAYAK. One wonders. _mMagyarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834296565844877410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-66068458407675299752010-04-21T13:21:37.021+09:002010-04-21T13:21:37.021+09:00Magyar san,
Thank you very much for your nice com...Magyar san,<br /><br />Thank you very much for your nice comment.<br /><br />According to A CULTURAL DICTIONARY OF JAPAN, mizu-basho is translated into English as skunk cabbage ; water banana.<br /><br />But here in Akita, we called it 'Bego no shita' in our dialect in my childhood.<br />'Bego' means 'Cow','no' means 'of', and 'shita' means 'tongue'.<br />'Bego no shita' is 'Cow's tongue' or 'Tongue of cow'.<br /><br />What a wonder it is that our dialect word is associated with your word 'Cowslip'!Hirutahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16497892439884048723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860712202243267342.post-59018077225188748462010-04-21T11:03:09.722+09:002010-04-21T11:03:09.722+09:00__I think what we refer to as -skunk cabbage- here...__I think what we refer to as -skunk cabbage- here... may be different than those you refer to. Too, another spring swamp plant we have is the Marsh Marigold, or the cowslip, some of the earliest green.<br /><br />__A good haiku doublet here Hiruta San! _mMagyarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834296565844877410noreply@blogger.com