Japanese72Seasons、新作のNo.68をリストしました🙌

この時期は本当に寒いですね❄️
しかし地中ではゆっくりと春への歩みが始まっているという自然の大きさに思いを馳せる…
すごく素敵な候だな~と目頭が熱くなります☺️(涙腺よわよわ)

21時に予約リストします😌



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芒種 Bōshu (Grain beards and seeds)
June 6–10
蟷螂生 Kamakiri shōzu
The praying mantis hatches

No praying mantis to hatch here. But the grain is growing, and days can be spent looking up at blue skies filled with clouds.

Peony Praying Mantis by Tanaka Yohu

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小満 Shōman (Lesser ripening)
May 21–25
蚕起食桑 Kaiko okite kuwa o hamu
Silkworms start feasting on mulberry leaves

No sign of rising temperatures at the moment, it’s still unseasonably cold but everything is greening although not quite summer dark yet.

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#72seasons

a bee
staggers out
of the peony
~Basho

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January 15–19
雉始雊 Kiji hajimete naku
Pheasants start to call

New paths mean new sounds & the pheasant has not been part of that. But listening. A male calling incessantly for a female means that Spring is on its way.

Pheasant in the snow - Ohara Koson

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December 27–31
麋角解 Sawashika no tsuno otsuru
Deer shed antlers (or the elk sheds it’s horns).

The elk is not naturally found in Japan but many of the seasons originate in China so perhaps imagination plays its part. Thoughts of mid-winter cold in a far away land.

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冬至 Tōji (Winter solstice)
December 22–26
乃東生 Natsukarekusa shōzu
Self-heal sprouts

When days are shortest & nights are longest, when everything appears withered & exhausted, the appearance of the sprouting buds of self-heal brings hope & the promise of Spring.

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