Yellow Rose (yamabuki)

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Yellow Mountain Rose (yamabuki)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Spring
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


http://www.paghat.com/kerria.html

Kerria japonica . Yamabuki 　山吹
litterally means "mountain breath". These bright yellow flowering bushes grow wild all over Japan, especially favoring riversides and gorges. Other translations are "Mountain rose, wild rose, Easter rose".

white mountain rose : shiro-yamabuki 白山吹
double-flowering mountain rose :
yae-yamabuki 八重山吹
dark yellow mountain rose : ko-yamabuki 濃山吹
mountain rose with leaves : ha yamabuki 葉山吹

The flowers have five petals, while the doublel-flowering looks like a ponpon with many petals.
They paint whole mountain ranges in bright yellow in late spring. Since olden times, these flowers have been a part of Japanese poetry, especially the Manyo'shu and the Tale of Genji. See later.

The bright yellow has been used to describe the yellow color of gold, especially the gold plates of Japanese money during the Edo period. "Yamabuki-iro" is the color of gold and bribes.


http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/coins/japanese.html

Below I quote a link about this kind of Japanese Money.

Gabi Greve

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Double-flowering yellow mountain rose


White mountain rose


Look at more pictures here:
http://www.hana300.com/yaeyam.html

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kigo for all winter

kare yamabuki, kareyamabuki 枯山吹 (かれやまぶき)
withered yellow rose bush


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Yamabuki (Kerria japonica)
By LINDA INOKI

Murasaki had prepared the floral offerings.
She chose eight of her prettiest little girls to deliver them,
dressing four as birds and four as butterflies.
The birds brought cherry blossoms in silver vases,
the butterflies yamabuki in gold.

From "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu,
translated by Edward G. Seidensticker (Penguin Books)

The simple, pure-yellow flowers of the yamabuki are borne in arching sprays with tender, bright-green leaves, and can still be found growing wild in the mountains. In literature, its Japanese name is sometimes translated as "mountain rose" or "yellow rose," although the original implies a mountain breeze or spray.
William Kerr, the first plant hunter to live in China, introduced the shrub to the West in the early 1800s, where the double variety was affectionately called "bachelor's buttons," because of its showy spring display.

© The Japan Times: Apr. 12, 2001
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20010412li.htm

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More Links about this plant:
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/k/kerjap/kerjap1.html
http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/kerria.html
http://www.manntaylor.com/plantweek51.html

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The shrub is especially associated with the Ide Tamagawa　井出　玉川, a river near Kyoto, which was well-famed for Yamabuki that flourish along its banks. Flower-viewing excursions were arranged among courtiers & courtesans specifically to observe Yamabuki in spring along the Ide Tamagawa. These excursions could be very expensive, & men who idled away their time in pleasure district activities were said to be "scattering gold coins as the Yamabuki scatters golden petals."

Hiroshige in 1830 illustrated the Kerria Rose overshadowing two frogs, in one of a famous series of plant portraits accompanied by the opening lines of poems. The jist of the poem that accompanies the famous picture can be paraphrased: "Frogs are calling in the spring rain, when the Yamabuki fails to shelter them.

"Why does the Kerria fail as a rain-shelter for frogs? Perhaps literally because the frogs are active so early in the spring that the Kerria hasn't yet regained all of its sheltering leaves. But the poem alludes to a mino which is a raincoat made of grass, punning this with the same word that means "seed" or "fruit." The Yamabuki is proverbially believed to be sterile, thus cannot provide the frog with a raincoat (mino) because it has no fruits (mino).

The pun is no mere jest, however, for it embodies a Buddhist sense of mono-no-aware, the sadness of things. So the poem's sentment could be rephrased: "The Yamabuki has flowers like the brocade robes of the wealthy, yet it is so poor it cannot afford even a grass raincoat."

In another story about Oota Dookan and a fair maiden, we read this song:

The Yamabuki enriches our house with flowers,
yet there is sadness here,
for these riches are an illusion,
and our flower has no mino (fruit)

Read a lot more about the Mountain Rose here:
http://www.paghat.com/kerria.html


. Oota Dookan 太田道灌 Ota Dokan .
(1432-1486)

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Here is another short quote concerning the above print from Hiroshige,
from a long essay about Haiku by Haruo Shirane

... the poetic essence of the kawazu, or frog, a seasonal word for spring, was song, usually calling for its mate, standing beneath the yamabuki (kerria), the bright yellow mountain rose, found on the banks of a river or stream, with its petals reflected in the clear water.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccba/cear/issues/fall99/text-only/shirane.htm


Ide no Tamagawa 井手の玉川 in Kyoto



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Ide Tamagawa Screens by Kano Tanshin Morimasa
The Ide Tamagawa scenery has long been extolled in waka poetry, and in particular the waka poems of the late Heian period poet Fujiwara Shunzei were often the basis for such paintings.
... This painting extracts only the bird and flower motifs from the Ide Tamagawa imagery that typically also included figural forms, and further recomposes the image to include grasses and flowers unrelated to the original poem.

source : cool_japan/culture


こまとめてなを水かはんやまぶきの
花のつゆそふ井での玉河

koma tomete nao mizu kahan yamabuki no
hana no tsuyu soo Ide no Tamagawa



Pulling up my horse
after having passed the banks
I see the petals
of Yamabuki roses
in Ide’s Tamagawa

Fujiwara no Shunzei 藤原俊成 (1114 - 1204)

source :　mu_tamagawa.html


. The six Tamagawa (Jewel Rivers　玉川) .

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Things found on the way

Read some detailed information about Japanese Money.
http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/coins/japanese.html


My story about the Color YELLOW in traditional Japanese kimono
and yellow Daruma.

- Yellow Daruma Dolls -l


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HAIKU


Picture and Hokku by Matsuo Basho

ほろほろと山吹散るか滝の音　
horo horo to yamabuki chiru ka taki no oto
horohoro, horo-horo

Petals of the mountain rose
Fall now and then,
To the sound of the waterfall.
Tr. Blyth


the petals temble
on the yellow mountain rose -
roar of the rapids
- haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/

quote
yamabuki flowers
falling scatteringly;
sound of waterfall

Petals of yamabuki, a kind of bright-yellow globeflower, are falling as if they are allured by the sound of a waterfall. The image of yamabuki is actually transformed into the image of the sound of a waterfall. The charm of this haiku lies in the juxtaposition of the heavy sound and movement of falling water with the light sound and movement of falling yellow flowers.
source : TOSHIMI HORIUCHI , 2001


Written in 1688 貞享5年
Oi no Kobumi
At the waterfall of Nijikoo no Taki 西河の滝 Nijiko no Taki. This is upriver from Yoshinogawa 吉野川. Near the bottom of the fall is an abundance of the yellow mountain roses.

This hokku has the cut marker KA at the end of line 2.


source : odn.ne.jp/j-kingdom


petals of mountain roses
fall ever so gently -
sound of this waterfall
Tr. Gabi Greve



quote
Nijiko is an area of the Yoshino River known for powerful rapids. In the haibun “Petal
by Petal,” where Basho¯ refers to a waka by Ki no Tsurayuki:

At Yoshino River,
the mountain roses at the riverbank
in the blowing wind:
even the reflections in the depths
are scattered

(yoshino-gawa / kishi no yamabuki / fuku kaze ni
soko no kage sae /utsuroinikeri).

source : Barnhill - haikupedia.ru



MORE - hokku about waterfalls by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


. Matsuo Basho in Yoshino 吉野山 .

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山吹や笠に挿すべき枝の形
yamabuki ya kasa ni sasu beki eda no nari


a mountain rose -
I should stick it in my hat
just like a branch
Tr. Barnhill

Written in 元禄4年, Basho age 44
At a dwelling in Akasaka, Edo 赤坂の庵.





A hat with a flowering branch or blossoms (hanagasa　花笠) is often used for festivals in Japan, and also in spring for cherry blossom viewing. Basho seems in a festive mood when he observes the yellow yamabuki.


MORE - hokku about the traveler's hat of
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .



. kanzashi かんざし / 簪 hairpin .


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. WKD : Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .


yamabuki ni te o kazashitaru itachi kana

in yellow roses
shading his eyes to gaze ..
a weasel

Issa
Tr. David Lanoue


yamabuki ya mazu o-saki e to tobu kawazu

yellow rose
please, you go first
frog jumping

Issa
Tr. David Lanoue

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Another haiku by Issa with a "yellow voice"
There is also an animal
ko-oo 黄鶯 "yellow uguisu" コウライウグイス



鶯や黄色な声で親をよぶ
uguisu ya kiiro na koe de oya o yobu

nightingale--
with a shrill voice
calling mother
Tr. David Lanoue


The young uguisu
Calls its parents
With a yellow voice.
Tr. Blyth



the Bush Warbler
with a yellow voice/call
calls for its parents

Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact
source : James Stanlaw



The youngest nightingale that can rejoice
calls to its parents in a yellow voice.

Issa must have been in deep meditation and he heard the nightingale rejoicing and calling to its parents in a yellow voice.
Issa is saying something about his silence. When you are in silence and a cuckoo from the bamboos starts singing, it deepens your silence.
source : shiromani


Continued here
. YELLOW and Haiku .

. Voices of animals in haiku .

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山吹や 井出を流るる 鉋屑
yamabuki ya Ide o nagaruru kannakuzu

these yellow roses -
wood shavings are flowing down
the river Ide
Tr. Gabi Greve

The cut marker YA is at the end of line 1.


. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .


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Related words

kigo for late spring

***** yamabukisoo 山吹草 (やまぶきそう) "Yamabuki plant"
kusa yamabuki 草山吹（くさやまぶき）
Chelidonium japonicus


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kigo for late summer

***** kusanooo, kusa no oo isoo くさのおう "king of plants"
..... 白屈菜（くさのおう） 草の黄（くさのおう）"yellow plant"
tamushi soo 田虫草（たむしそう）
Chelidonium majus, bloodroot
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