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hana ni asobu

28th November 2015 temca Leave a comment

On blossom.

花にあそぶ虻なくらひそ友雀

hana ni asobu
abu na kurai so
tomo suzume

Among the blossoms frolic
Horseflies–don’t eat them up
O, friendly sparrow!

(Spring 1688)

abu blossom hana horseflies sparrows Spring suzume

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Man’yō Botanical Gardens

There are 37 botanical gardens throughout Japan devoted to displaying the plants and poetry of the Man’yōshū, of which 27 are open to the public. In July 2016, I visited ten of these for research purposes, in various parts of Japan’s main island, Honshu, and one of its others, Shikoku. Read More about “Man’yō Botanical Gardens”…

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