[Ehon Fukujuso] (9) Trumpet Creeper / Spurge / Wild Rose / Lychnis
Trumpet Creeper
(Nōzenkazura) - Ziwei, from "Bencao Gangmu"
Leaving the tree of the evening glow,
it crawls there. Tōrin
Sōenjiguma
* "Ryōshō" is another name for the trumpet creeper. Pronounced ryōshō. Reference: "Ōmonroku Vol. 1 (What is mountain creeper)" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
* "Tōrin" is the haiku poet of the early Edo period, Amano Tōrin.
Spurge
(Tōdaigusa) - Miaojiyanshu, from "Yefu"; also known as Yuanyeyuanhuacao
Zeqi, from "Bencao Gangmu"
Originally dark, the spurge is growing thick.
* "Tōdaigusa" is the spurge.
* "艸" is grass.
* "Zeqi" is Japanese spurge (sawa-urushi).
* "Shikeri" likely means to grow thick (shigeri).
* Reference: "Wakan Sansai Zue, Vol. 2 (Spurge)", "Korean Dictionary (Zeqi)" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
Wild Rose
(Ibarashōbi) - Qiangwei, from "Jiuhuang"
This morning I saw it for the first time,
the color of the flower,
which I should have called fleeting. Tsurayuki
* "Ibarashōbi" is a thorny rose. "Shōbi" refers to the rose.
* "Kesa uini so mitsuru" means "I saw it for the first time this morning." "Sōbi" is a pun on "rose." Reference: "Kamo no Mabuchi Zenshū Vol. 11, Revised (Kamo no Mabuchi Complete Works Vol. 11, Revised)", "Rose Cultivation", "New Book on Rose Cultivation", "Ban Nobutomo Zenshū Vol. 5 (Sōbi)" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
* "Tsurayuki" is Ki no Tsurayuki.
Lychnis
(Ganpi) - Jianchunluo, from "Bencao Gangmu"
"Housen'ikyoku"
The Ganpi that passes into human hands is not a bird,
but I see it arranged in a basket vase.
Munesada
* "鳫緋" is Ganpi (the first character is a variant of wild goose). Another name for Lychnis coronata. A perennial plant of the Caryophyllaceae family.
* "Kago-hana-ike" is thought to mean a basket flower vase. A flower vessel made of bamboo or rattan.
* "Munesada" might be a misreading.
* Reference: "Hiden Kakyō Vol. 5 (Jianchunluo)" (National Diet Library Digital Collections)
For the literature cited in this work, please refer to this note. → [Ehon Fukujuso] Literature Summary
Author's note: ● indicates characters that could not be deciphered, and □ indicates kanji that cannot be displayed on a computer.
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