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Yamashina Paintings

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Sokrates and Daruma

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Hoshino Tsubaki 星野 椿 (1930 - )

Wood, firewood, timber, lumber Kenya

Crabapple, Sibold crabapple, "mountain pear" (yamanashi, yama-nashi) Japan. Malus sieboldii

funaryoori 船料理 (ふなりょうり) food served on board a ship or boat

Uchida Hyakken 内田百間 May 29, 1889 — April 20, 1971

Sea bream (tai, sakuradai, madai ..) Pagrus major Japan

Laquer tree (urushi no ki) Rhus verniciflua Japan. "Sun spurge" Euphorbia helioscopia, "swamp laquer"

Leopard lily (hioogi) Belamcanda chinensis Japan. ubatama 鳥羽玉 sweet balls

Amanatto (amanattoo) 甘納豆 sugar-glazed beans and Hamanatto 浜納豆

Bilberries, cowberries (kokemomo), Preiselbeere Japan

DRINKS - Hot and Cold DRINKS SAIJIKI

Kawasaki Tenko (Tenkoo) Born 1927

Racoon, racoon dog, badger (tanuki, mujina, anaguma) Japan

Spinach (hoorensoo) Japan. Spinat

PEPPER, (togarashi, toogarashi) red hot pepper Shichimi Togarashi and more, Chili pepper, paprica Paprika (piiman), sweet green pepper (shishitoo) and more

Puddle, puddles Tropical regions, Japan

Ningyooyaki, ningyoyaki 人形焼 figure waffles Japan

Stepping stones Kenya in the rain

Trench clearing Guyana

Chokoreeto チョコレート chocolate with many tasts Japan. Schokolade

Carpet, rug (juutan, dantsuu) Japan

Snack, afternoon snack Oyatsu お八つ . o-cha-uke 御茶請け

Fountain (funsui) Springbrunnen Japan

Cider, apple cider (saidaa) Japan, Europe, Australia

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Moyashi udo もやし独活（もやしうど）sprouts of spikenard and more moyashi
Bohnensprossen

Hoonensai 豊年祭 Festival for a bountiful harvest "Penis Festival", at Tagata Shrine, Aichi prefecture

. . . Cool, cold, chilly ... a feeling and related kigo during all seasons.

Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) bird North America

Virga precipitation Southern United States

. kunshu sanmon 葷酒山門（くんしゅさんもん）
Temple Gate, no garlic or liquor beyond this point!

Shookadoo Bentoo 松花堂弁当 Shokado Bento Lunchbox from Kyoto

Devil's tongue (konnyaku) Konjak plant and food. Japan

"May Day" in England (mee dii) Japan. International Workers' Day

Pleiades (matariki) Maori, New Zealand. (subaru, Japan)

"butterbur like KYARA aloeswood" (kyarabuki) Japan

Wimbledon Tennis Championship Tournament, Grand Slam England

Acacia blossoms Yemen, Japan

Musoo-Ki 夢窓忌 (むそうき), Soseki Ki Memorial Day for Muso Kokushi Soseki and the ZUIKI taro festival

Taro root (sato-imo, taro imo) Japan. Philippines (gabi). Taro-Kartoffel

Hawthorn and Firethorn (sanzashi) Crataegus and Pyracanthus. Japan, Europe

Red Beans, "small beans" , adzuki (azuki 小豆 )

hon-i, hon'i 本意 (ほんい) the basic meaning the traditional poetic essence. Haiku Theory

tamanegi 玉葱 (たまねぎ) round onion and many more summer vegetables
shallot, tomato, eggplant, etc.

Humanity and Observances, two important categories for HAIKU

New Blog, hope it works ....

Gabi

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Persimmon (kaki)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see WKD
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Kaki, 柿 Persimmon
Kaki Persimmon (kaki, hoshigaki)
WKD... various kigo
Diospyros kaki


Kaki-Plate by Gabi Greve


There are said to be more than 1000 different kinds of KAKI in Japan.
The most important one is Fuyuugaki 富有柿.

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kushigaki 串柿 ( くしがき) dried persimmons on a stick

prepared in the town of Shigo, Katsuragi, in Wakayama.
They are used as a decoration for the New Year, placed on the mochi, usually in the Kansai area.
In November, there is a Shigo Persimmon Festival
They are grown in the mountains and harvested each day for two month to prepare the dried fruit on skewers, 10 each, for good luck.
Soto nikoniko, uchi mutsumajii ...
Outside smiling (two and two), inside a harmonious couple (six on the inside).
The farmer's wife puts them on skewers from morning to evening, for two months. The son binds them in layers to hang out for drying. They are dried under roofs outside and have to be taken care of when the mountain fog comes up. All are quite exhausted each year when the persimmon harvest is over ... and not even a fruit to eat.


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Monbei-Gaki 紋平柿(もんべいがき)
aus Takamatsu. a bitter variety, about 300 g heavy.


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Persimmons in local lore

Once Saint Shinran 親鸞聖人 (1173-1262) on his way to exile in Echigo (now Niigata) stayed over night in a farmhouse. He told the eager farmer Tsujihara Saemon 辻源左ェ門 all about his religion, the New Pure Land Buddhism.
Outside an old grandmother 経田屋太兵衛の老婆 heared his sermon. The next morning, when Shinran passed Keitaya 経田屋, she gave him some persimmons on a stick to eat. Shinran was very pleased about this. He took three seeds out of the persimmons, which had been grilled in the hearth and were half-black, and planted them in the garden,saying: "May they bring forth buds and be witness to my beliefs!" 我が末法世に栄えるならば再び芽を生ぜよ (this is a legend, of course). And for sure, over night three young sprouts came out of the earth and grew into three persimmon trees "sanbongaki" 三本柿. The fruit and kernels of these persimmons have black spots (from the hearth fire) to this day.
Thus the whole village took the name of "persimmon village" kakigichoo 柿木町. People who tried to cut them down were severely punished. One still exists today, with replants over the years. In 1956, the town build a fence around it.
There is now one tree at the tempel Tsujitokuhoo-Ji 辻徳法寺 and its fruit have black spots as if they had been burned down. The abbot knows this: "The three trees in front of Keitaya 経田屋 became old and dry over the years, but one of them was planted to the temple and survived there, and the two others are now lost."
Niigata (Toyama) prefecture, Kurobe Town,Shimoniikawa 新川（にいかわ）/ 黒部市三島


And a sweet with white beans and dried persimmons sold in Kurobe Town in honor of this legend.


黒部市三日市 Kurobe Town , Mikkaichi Town


There is even a haiku about these trees.

佛恩の柿の茂りと見上げたり
butsuon no kaki no shigeri to miagetari

I look up to it -
this leafy persimmon tree
with a Buddha legend

Igarashi Bansui (1899-2000) 五十嵐播水



Shinran had been in exile for five years in Echigo (now Niigata), but was pardoned in1211.
Saint Shinran / More in the WIKIPEDIA !
Shinran lebte 5 Jahre im Exil in Echigo. Neue Joodo Sekte des Reinen Landes. 浄土真宗


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Dishes with persimmons 柿料理 kaki ryoori



The most representative food of autumn in Japan.
Rich in vitamin C and carotin.

kaki no sunomono 柿の酢の物 prepared with sweet vinegar
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kaki no aemono 柿の和え物 with tofu dressing
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often used in the temple kitchen
for shoojin ryoori 精進料理.


Wagashi . Japanese Sweets
Persimmon and Sweets

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Worldwide use

Persimone, Diospyros kaki. Kakipflaume; Sharonfrucht.


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU



串柿が障子に残す影三つ　　
kushigaki ga shooji ni nokosu kage mitsu

three shadows
from persimmons on a stick
on the paper door　　

Hayu はゆ

kushigaki, kigo for autumn

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kaki kueba / the famous persimmon haiku
Masaoka Shiki
kaki kueba kane ga naru nari Horyuji


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Related words

***** WASHOKU : INGREDIENTS

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http://washokufood.blogspot.com/2009/03/kaki-persimone.html

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Snow in Ohaga, my Valley

明日の天気 - 1月10日(土)

時間 0時 3時 6時 9時 12時 15時 18時 21時 天気
湿雪
みぞれ
乾雪
乾雪
みぞれ
みぞれ
湿雪
乾雪 気温（℃） 1 2 -1 -1 3 3 1 -2 湿度（％） 74 82 82 78 68 70 78 82 降水量（mm/h） 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 風向
風速（m/s）
西
1 西北西
5 西
3 西北西
3 西北西
4 北西
4 西北西
2 西北西
3

2009年1月9日　11時00分発表

日付
1月11日
(日) 1月12日
(月) 1月13日
(火) 1月14日
(水) 1月15日
(木) 1月16日
(金) 天気
曇時々雪
曇時々雪
曇時々雪
曇時々雪
曇時々雪
曇り 気温（℃） 7
-1 6
-1 5
-1 7
-1 7
-1 9
0 降水
確率（％） 60 70 80 60 50 40 ※ http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/33/6620/33666.html

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