Lampionflowers (hoozuki)

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Lampionflowers (hoozuki)

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

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Explanation




hoozuki 鬼燈 － 鬼灯 - ほうずき Chinese lantern plant
ground cherry, lampion flower, winter cherry, husk tomato
Physalis alkekengi

With its swollen body it carries a lot of good luck (fuku 福）and is thus a good omen, bringing good fortune to its owner.
It is also the protector deity for women, healing ladies illnessen and helps making them pregnant.

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kigo for mid-summer

hoozuki no hana 鬼燈の花 (ほおずきのはな)
flowers of the lampionflower





kigo for late summer

ao hoozuki 青鬼燈 (あおほおずき) green Hoozuki
..... 青酸漿（あおほおずき）

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kigo for all autumn

hoozuki 鬼燈 lampionflower, lampion flower
..... 酸漿（ほおずき) / 鬼灯
“The Demons Lantern”
ground cherry
Physalis alkekengi Linn. var. franchetii (Mast.) Hort



Ikebana by Erika Schwalm


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observance kigo for late summer

hoozuki ichi 鬼燈市 ほおずきいち lampion flower market
..... 酸漿市（ほおずきいち）
shiman rokusen nichi 四万六千日（しまんろくせんにち）
46000 days
rokusen nichi sama 六千日さま（ろくせんにちさま）



The famous market for Demons Lanterns is held at the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo and used to be a speciality already at the Edo period. It is held for two days on July 9/10 and is in itself a kigo for summer. More than 250 stalls sell their plants.

The 10th of the 7th lunar month is also a special day to get some religious merit at the Asakusa temple. If you visit on that day, it is worth the merit of 46000 days (shiman rokusen nichi) or (126 years) of temple visiting.

Why 46000 days, you might ask?
This is supposed to be the number of rice grains in one Japanese measure of rice, Japan being an old rice-growing nation and wasting even one grain of it was a big sin.

. Asakusa Kannon　浅草観音


Hozuki were also made into a powerful medicine and sold at the Hozuki market and the monthly temple prayer days (ennichi) at Asakusa.
If a special hozuki tea was prepared and drunk on the tenth day of the seventh lunar month, it would cure dysenterie and intestinal parasites. This lore dates back to a dream of a man in the Shiba district, who saw the Atago deity in his dream.

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Physalis alkekengi
(Bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns.
It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Look at more photos
- Hoozuki ほうずき　-


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Things found on the way





hoozuki ningyoo 鬼灯人形 Hozuki Dolls



hoozuki asobi ほおずき遊び」 playing with Hozuki


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source :　blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yukio8600



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With its swollen body it carries a lot of good luck (fuku 福）and is thus a good omen, bringing good fortune to its owner.
It is also the protector deity for women, healing ladies illnessen and helps making them pregnant.

. tsurushibina, tsurushi bina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .


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HAIKU

hoozuki ya tsumi-nokori tsumu too bakari

Demons Lanterns
Picking the ones left over,
Just ten of them

Ozawa Hekido 小沢碧童


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hoozuki no tasuke o sugishi kaze ni iro

passing the lampionflower
the wind gains
color

Hata san
© Photo and Haiku : Denhata Saijiki

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kago kabau hoozuki-ichi no yoi no ame

Covering up the baskets!
evening downpoor at the
Hozuki-Market

Mizuhara Shuohshi 水原秋櫻子


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- - - - - Playing with lampionflowers and haiku


鬼灯でピエロ人形創りたり　

from the lampionflower
we make the doll
of a pierrot



鬼灯を鳴らすを知らぬ子等ばかり

so many children
do not know how to blow
the lampionflower



鬼灯はさびしき庭の灯となれり

lampionflowers
in a lonely garden
they are the only lanterns

source : 牧陽子 Maki Yooko


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Related words

***** Market selling Morning-Glories, asagao ichi　朝顔市
Market at Iriya in Edo, Iriya asagao ichi 入谷朝顔市

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. Legends from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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Gifu, 洞戸村 Horado
A local Kappa (gawairo ガワイロ) changes into a Hozuki. If people pick it up, they will become sick and die.

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Miyagi
If you plant Hozuki in the garden of your estate, people will get sick.

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東京都 Tokyo

A boy got an intestinal worm infection （カイチュウ） and had a terrible stomach ache about once a month. Then he got some Hozuki from Jizo お地蔵様 and ate it. This healed his illness.

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Yamagata, 小国町 Oguni
If farmers plant Hozuki and tear grass (hatomugi ハトムギ Coix lacryma-jobi), there will be many sick people in the village.


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