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Buckwheat plant and food (soba)
***** Location: Japan, other regions
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant
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Explanation
Buckwheat refers to a variety of plants in the dicot family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, the North American genus Eriogonum, and the Northern Hemisphere genus Fallopia.
Either of the latter two may be referred to as "wild buckwheat".
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pink and red buckwheat, aka-soba 赤蕎麦
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plant kigo for early autumn
soba no hana 蕎麦の花 (そばのはな)
buckwheat flowers
There are white and pink varieties.
Some villages plant the pink ones to have a pretty view for visitors.
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mizosoba 溝蕎麦 (みぞそば)
Polygonum thunbergii
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plant kigo for late autumn
shin soba 新蕎麦 (しんそば) new buckwheat
akisoba, aki soba 秋蕎麦（あきそば）autumn buckwheat
hatsu soba 初蕎麦（はつそば）first buckwheat of the season
..... arsoba 新蕎麦（あらそば）
hashirisoba 走り蕎麦（はしりそば）
buckwheat harvested early in autumn
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humanity kigo for early winter
soba kari 蕎麦刈 (そばかり) cutting buckwheat
harvesting buckwheat
soba hosu 蕎麦干す（そばほす）drying buckwheat plants
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humanity kigo for all autumn
sobatoro, soba toro 蕎麦とろ（そばとろ）
buckwheat noodles with grated yam
Japanese Autumn Food using Buckwheat
humanity food kigo for all winter
sobagaki 蕎麦掻 (そばがき) buckwheat dumplings
Yotakasoba 夜鷹蕎麦 (よたかそば)
Buckwheat noodles for the late night hawkers
. . . . . yonaki soba 夜泣蕎麦（よなきそば）
sobayu 蕎麦湯 (そばゆ) hot buckwheat water
. Japanese Winter Food using Buckwheat
Toshikoshi Soba ... 年越しそば
Buckwheat noodles on the last day of the year
In Japan, buckwheat is grown in the mounainous areas where no other food plants are growing any more, and made to noodles or dumplings. Many areas are famous for this delicious food.
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Read more about buckwheat here:
Polygonum fagopyrum
BUCKWHEAT soba そば 蕎麦
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Worldwide use
Buchweizen, Buchweizennudeln
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Things found on the way
wankosoba わんこそば (わんこ蕎麦 / （椀こそば) Morioka, buckwheat noodles
Small servings of soba, served "all you can eat" and as fast as you can eat. How many can you gulp down in xx minutes?
These noodles are also served in Hanamaki town 花巻市 and competitions are held there.
. Food from Iwate .
and
Soba furumai そば振る舞い to give soba as s present in Edo
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Soba 蕎麦 そば ＜＞ Daruma Eating Buckwheat Noodles
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HAIKU
Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉
蕎麦はまだ花でもてなす山路かな
soba wa mada hana de motenasu yamaji kana
buckwheat flowers
still entertain us
along the mountain path
Tr. Gabi Greve
Visited by Tojuu of Ise at my mountain hermitage
buckwheat
still served with flowers
on a mountain road
Tr. Reichhold
I was visited by Tojuu of Ise at my mountain hermitage
I'll serve buckwheat
while they're blossoming:
mountain path
Tr. Barnhill
Reichhold's comment:
"Tojuu of Ise, a disciple of Shikoo, visited Basho on September 3rd [1694].
Buckwheat noodles were one of Basho's favorite foods."
Barnhill's comment:
"1694 (3rd of Ninth Month; October 21). It is still too early to serve buckwheat noodles as food, so viewing their blossoms will have too."
Basho Haiku about Food
三日月に地はおぼろ也蕎麦の花
mikazuki ni ji ha oboro ya soba no hana
a crescent moon
lights the misty ground-
buckwheat flowers
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山畠やそばの白さもぞっとする
yamahata ya soba no shirosa mo zotto suru
mountain field--
the buckwheat's whiteness
makes me shiver
そばの花咲くや仏と二人前
soba no hana saku ya hotoke to futarimae
buckwheat blossoms
enough for the Buddha
and me
国がらや田にも咲するそばの花
kunigara ya ta ni mo saki suru soba no hana
such is my homeland!
blooming in fields
buckwheat
Kobayashi Issa
More tr. by David Lanoue
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he sings upstream
buckwheat blossoms
and summer rain
.. .. .. on his screen
.. .. .. a mail about buckwheat
.. .. .. outside a sparrow
gazing wistfully
buckwheat blossoms
in the mist
.. .. .. reading Shiki
.. .. .. the scent of buckwheat
.. .. .. around her
GEERT VERBEKE
My website: http://users.skynet.be/geert.verbeke.bowls
Read more of Geert's haiku about the buckwheat here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/963
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buckwheat flowers -
a yellow butterfly
chooses pink
Gabi Greve
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Related words
***** Buckwheat Honey
nonseasonal topic
Buckwheat is perhaps the darkest and strongest flavored honeys. It contains a lot of minerals and has a strong taste. Sometimes used in porters and stouts. You can also poor it over hot cake and pancakes for a healthy treat.
Gabi Greve
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in falling snow
delivered to a palanquin...
buckwheat noodles
yuki chiru ya o-kago e hakobu nihachi soba
雪ちるや御駕へはこぶ二八蕎麦
by Issa, 1820
Some rich person being carried in a palanquin orders steaming hot buckwheat noodles being sold by a street vendor.
Shinji Ogawa explains that the ni ("two") and hachi ("eight") in the name derive from the fact that these noodles were made with 20% flour and 80% buckwheat.
Tr. David Lanoue
http://cat.xula.edu/issa/
そば国のたんを切つつ月見哉
soba-guni no tan wo kiritsutsu tsukimi kana
buckwheat country's
sharp tongues cutting...
moon gazing
by Issa, 1819
Issa's home province of Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture) was known for its buckwheat (soba). This haiku appears with the prescript, "One can't smell one's own bean paste"--a Japanese proverb; see Issa zenshu^ (Nagano: Shinano Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976-79) 6.174, note 266. The editors of Issa zenshu^ gloss the middle phrase of the haiku, tan wo kititsutsu, to mean "speaking caustic words" (6.174, note 267).
Nobuyuki Yuasa's translation misses this idea; he has the "bumpkins...Sing the praise" of their buckwheat land; The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1960; 2nd ed. 1972) 125.
Tr. and Comment by
David Lanoue
Yosa Buson
故郷や酒はあしくと蕎麦の花
furusato ya sake wa ashiku to soba no hana
My hometown --
Though the sake is not good
Buckwheat flowers
Tr. Nelson/Saito
Buson and Sake
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sobakiri-uri no fune そば切り売りの舟 boat selling buckwheat noodles
They were also popular in Osaka on the river Yodogawa 淀川の三十石船.
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fune 舟 boats and ships on the rivers of Edo
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蕎麦酒 Buckwheat liquor
from 蕎麦の酒 - Suehiro Sake Co. - Fukushima
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http://kappapedia.blogspot.jp/2015/03/akita-prefecture.html
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Mamiana slope 狸穴坂 in Azabu, Edo
At the bottom of the slope three was a 蕎麦屋 Soba shop called Tanuki Soba 狸蕎麦（作兵衛蕎麦 Sakubei Soba), which featured rather dark Soba buckwheat noodles.
In the Edo period, badgers from this area came to live and dig their holes in 徳川の大奥 the harem of Edo castle. A man named 内田正九郎 Uchida Shokuro was ordered to get rid of them. The souls of the badgers are now venerated at Sakubei Soba and he called his food "Tanuki Soba".
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2018/10/mamiana-district-azabu-minato.html
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Soba jiten (そば辞典) dictionary of buckwheat noodles
知っていると、もっとおいしい！？そばの知識
そばのおいしい国、信州から。意外に知っているようで知らない、そばにまつわるあれこれをお伝えします。
https://www.nikkoku.co.jp/entertainment/sobajiten/
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