[Picture Book Fukujuso] (4) Wisteria / Primrose / Japanese Primrose / Dandelion
Wisteria
Ziteng (Wisteria), from "Bencao Gangmu"
From "Kin'yoshu"
Because of the connection of the purple color, the wisteria flowers
The clouds hanging over them are also intimate
* The poem "Because of the connection of the purple color..." is a poem by Fujiwara no Akisuke included in the "Kin'yoshu". In this book, it says "clouds" instead of "pine".
Because of the connection of the purple color, the wisteria flowers
The pine hanging over them is also intimate
Reference: "Twenty-One Imperial Anthologies Vol. 3" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
Primrose
The garden is, oh, this field and mountain, primrose
* "Koyayoshi" was read as "koyayoshi" because it continues from "noyama" (fields and mountains), but it might be "koyahashi". In either case, I cannot grasp the meaning of the sentence, so I may have misread it.
Japanese primrose
■-node flower (■ is square + life), from "Qunfang"
From "Gosen Ikkyoku", not yet obtained
After finishing the butterbur sprouts
The Japanese primrose stands tall in the shade
* "■-node flower (■ is square + life)" seems to be "Jingjiehua" (Stachyurus praecox), but this seems to mean the plant Kibushi (a deciduous shrub of the Stachyuraceae family).
Reference: "Japanese Plant Names (Kifuji)" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
* "Not yet obtained" refers to the early Edo period haiku poet and kyoka poet, Ishida Mitoku.
Dandelion, Tsutsumigusa
Bobeidingcai, from "Jiuhuang" / Gongying, from "Bencao Gangmu"
White dandelion is Bai Gu Ding, from "Yepu"
Jui-i Kotsū-kō
The blooming flower, even people are admonished, tsutsumigusa (drum grass)
Know the spring of a world deep in moss
* "Tsutsumigusa" is Tsuzumigusa (drum grass).
* "Jui-i Kotsū-kō" is the mid-Edo period court noble, Ogimachi Kinmichi. Lord Ogimachi Jui-i Kotsū. Reference: "Etsu-O War Observations, Choyokan Manpitsu" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
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Author's Note: ● indicates characters that could not be deciphered, and □ indicates kanji that cannot be displayed on a computer.
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