Azalea (tsutsuji, satsuki)
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Azalea (tsutsuji) ,
Rhododendron (shakunage)
***** Location: Japan, other countries
***** Season:
.. .. .. .. .. Tsutsuji: Late Spring
.. .. .. .. .. Satsuki : Mid-Summer
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
Azalea 躑躅 つつじ Rhododendron Family.
Mountain Azaleas, yama tsutsuji 山躑躅
Clover-like Azalea, renge tsutsuki 蓮華躑躅
Morninglight Azalea, akebono tsutsuji
Big Violet Azalea, oomurasaki 大紫
Unzen Tsutsuji Mt. Unzen Azaleas, 雲仙躑躅

More Pictures are here:
http://www.d5.dion.ne.jp/~nasukusi/tsutsugi.files/02-5.jpg
http://www.d5.dion.ne.jp/~nasukusi/tsutsugi.files/02-2-1.jpg
http://www.d5.dion.ne.jp/~nasukusi/tsutsugi.files/02-2-2.jpg
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Tsutsuji
is the most general term in Japanese for evergreen and deciduous azaleas. One evergreen late-blossoming species called satsuki is distinguished from other azaleas, though it is also referred to as satsuki tsutsuji. Azaleas have been cultivated in Japan since the Kamakura period ( 1185-1333 ), particularly during the Edo period ( 1600-1868 ).
http://www.yoursourceinjapan.com/motifs.htm
There are many Azalea Parks in Japan. Tsutsuji kooen躑躅公園, tsutsuji-ga-oka躑躅が丘
http://www.city.tatebayashi.gunma.jp/tsutsuji/
Click on any of the pictures for a big image.
http://www.city.tatebayashi.gunma.jp/tsutsuji/02.html
Big Purple Azalea, Oo-murasaki-tsutsuji
大紫躑躅 Rhododendron pulchrum
This is the type with the biggest flowers, blooming from end of April till May. For short it is called “Oo-murasaki”, the Big Violet One”. It is part of the flower family of Hirado Tsutsuji, the Azaleas from Hirado.
Azaleas have been the subject of poetry since the times of the Manyoo-shuu 万葉集。Since the flowers are in one row, flowering one after another, the first reading of the name was “tsuzuki”, to follow, which then changed to the somehow softer pronounciastion of “tsutsuji”.
At present there are more than 300 different kinds growing in Japan.
http://www.hana300.com/oomura.html
More pictures about different types of Azalea in Tokyo.
http://www.hana300.com/tutuji1.html
http://www.hana300.com/tutuji2.html
http://www.hana300.com/tutuji3.html
http://www.hana300.com/tutuji4.html
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Mountain Azaleas, Yama-tsutsuji
山躑躅 Rhododendron Kaempferi
Mostly wild in the forests of Japan.

More pictures are here:
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/BotanicalGarden/HTMLs/yamatutuji.html
http://www.geocities.jp/mtmt1952/pf-2003-05-06-yamatutuji.htm
http://members.stvnet.home.ne.jp/kubookada-k/yamatutuji.html
Korean Wild Azaleas
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/BotanicalGarden/HTMLs/chousen-yamatutuji.html
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Worldwide use
USA
any species of the genus Rhododendron, North American and Asian shrubs of the family Ericaceae ( heath family) that are distinguished by the usually deciduous leaves. Azaleas are handsome shrubs with large clusters of pink, red, orange, yellow, purple, or white flowers. The better-known native American azaleas, often cultivated, include the flame azalea ( R. calendulacea ) of the Appalachians; the pinxter flower ( R. nudiflora ) and the fragrant white azalea, or swamp honeysuckle ( R. viscosa ), of the E United States; and the Western azalea ( R. occidentalis ) of California and Oregon.
Most azaleas grow in damp, acid soils of hills or mountains. The rose-purple R. canadense, a rare species with an unusually northerly range (from Pennsylvania to Newfoundland) is the rhodora immortalized by Emerson.
Many of the brilliantly flowered garden varieties are native to China and Japan, where the genus is most abundantly represented. The popular Ghent azaleas are hybrids. Dwarf azaleas are grown by florists as pot plants. Azaleas are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ericales, family Ericaceae.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/azalea.asp
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when the azaleas bloom here, it means the hummingbirds will have made it here, in their migration to points north to nest. they are attracted to red flowers, or to red sugar water.
first azalea
filling the hummingbird feeder
with scarlet nectar
susan delphine delaney
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Things found on the way

Beautiful drawings of flowers by Taro
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano-Aoyama/8403/omo.hana3.html
http://www.bonsaisite.com/satsuki.html
http://www.ncazaleafestival.org/AboutUs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azalea
http://www.usna.usda.gov/PhotoGallery/AzaleaGallery/
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HAIKU
out my window-
azaleas
in full bloom
Kate Steere
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Three famous Japanese Haiku about the Azaleas
(1) つつじいけて其陰(そのかげ)に 干鱈(ひだらさく女)
松尾芭蕉 Basho
(2) 百両の 石にもまけぬ つつじ哉(かな)
小林一茶 Issa
(3) 近道へ 出てうれし野の 躑躅かな
与謝蕪村 Buson
http://www.hana300.com/oomura.html
http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~sa3270/HM.tutuji.htm
(1) A woman under the azaleas placed in the pot, tearing up dried cod.
© Translation R.H.Blyth
Link with more versions of the translation, page by Dimitri Smirnow, with Russian translations.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dmitrismirnov/BASHO_Haiku_T1.html
(2) Issa and his Azalea Haiku
just as wonderful
as the expensive garden stone...
azaleas
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/searchissa.php?s_string=azalea&sorter=date
http://www.janis.or.jp/users/kyodoshi/issaku-06.htm
(3) Buson
taking a shortcut -
how charming
azaleas in the fields
(Tr. Gabi Greve)
http://www.nime.ac.jp/~saga/txtbuson.html
Another one by Buson
Azaleas are blooming;
In this remote mountain village
The boiled rice is white.
http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/favs.htm
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torch azaleas
shine naturally on
the imperial copse
http://slimey.cocolog-nifty.com/haiku/2004/04/
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azaleas bloom
by the temple door
a bell rings
Patricia A. Laurent
http://shiki1.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/kukai/kukai13-1.html
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The Haiku Photo Gallery has a nice collection of Azalea Haiku.
………smiles and laughter
………the azaleas are blooming
………deep in the hills
Robert Leechford
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/PH_detail?photo_sn_in=862
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do not worry
about the fires of hell -
Azalea, Azalea
sorge Dich nicht
um das Höllenfeuer -
Azaleen, Azaleen
© Photo and Haiku by Gabi Greve
Read more about this impressive Buddhastatue in my garden.
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Hana fukaku Tsutsuji miru ho o utsushikeri
My foot go into
deeper deeper
view of Azalea
Mankai no satsuki suimen ni teru gotoshi
full of Azalea
like blooming
on water
(Tr. Etsuko Yanagibori)
Hisajo Sugita (1890 ~ 1946)
http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ehisajo.shtml
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Related words
***** Summer Azaleas, Satsuki (kigo for mid-summer)
Satsuki is also a name for girls born in May.
A fine gallery of Satsuki Bonsai.

http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~ja2br/
For example, to enjoy the red leaves of tiny Azaleas.
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~ja2br/kouyou.html
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~ja2br/mafuyukoyo.html
Toms Bonsai Collection
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~ja2br/fromfriend.html
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***** rhododendron, shakunage
石南花 (しゃくなげ)
石楠花(しゃくなげ)、石楠(しゃくなげ)
シャクナゲ, sekinan ( 石南 せきなん)
kigo for early summer


These flowers also came from the Himalayas via China to Japan. They show a strong life energy. They come in various colors, like white,yellow, pink, orange, violet and others.
Port Townsend Rhody Festival
Saga Dawa—
rhododendrons
at their best
Karma Tenzing Wangchuk
Kigo Hotline, 2008

Saga Dawa / Vesak is an annual holiday observed by practicing Buddhists.
The exact date of Vesak varies according to the various lunar calendars used in different traditions. In Theravada countries following the Buddhist calendar, it falls on the full moon Uposatha day (typically the 5th or 6th lunar month). In China it is the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, coinciding with the first full moon of that month.
The date varies from year to year in the Western Gregorian calendar but falls in April or May.
Saga Dawa Buddha's Birthday
kigo for early summer
Her wrinkled fingers
on the rudraksh rosary--
Buddha Purnima
Today is Buddha Purnima, Lord Buddha's Birth day.
© Ram Krishna Singh India 2008
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1 Comments:
beni-tsutsuji/hana michite ha wa/kakure keri
red azalea...
as its flowers bloom fully
the leaves get hidden
Sojo Hino (1901-1956)
Translated and commented by Susumu Takiguchi
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