Showing posts with label mitsumata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mitsumata. Show all posts
March 24, 2024
March 19, 2023
April 3, 2022
Spring garden: Jochi-ji
In the small humble garden where seasonal plants and trees grow as they naturally are, I found a flower assortment of yellow-mitsumata, white apricot, and pink peach, which represented the incoming of spring in Kita-kamakura.
The bright yellow flowers are yellow-mitsumata. Its bundles of cottony flower-buds sprout in the form of a tiny toy handball in the beginning of February, and keep growing quietly in the height of the harsh season.
Around the middle of March, as the warmth and sunlight of spring increase, these small yellow buds begin to bloom all together like dear children smiling joyfully and to emit a pleasant aroma, quietly heralding the arrival of long-expected spring.
January 23, 2022
March 29, 2020
Mitsumata (Edgeworthia chrysantha) flowers and Akatateha (Vanessa indica) butterfly: Engaku-ji
After awakening from long winter sleep in the hiding place, a small butterfly has begun fluttering about busily to search for sweet nectar in the bright sunlight of spring.
The vivid yellow flowers of Mitsumata are blooming quietly and giving out the scent of nectar to invite insects to their mystic ritual of pollination.
A flower and a butterfly meet each other of their own accord owing to the unknown affinity kept for hundreds of million years, which tells me about a secret story of life continuing unendingly in our universe.
March 11, 2020
March 29, 2019
March 24, 2018
April 20, 2016
March 13, 2016
April 27, 2015
March 30, 2014
April 2, 2013
The flowers of Mitsumata (Edgeworthia chrysantha) in Engaku-ji
The flowers of Mitsumata are floating in the air like an enormous number of small bouquets of yellow.
These brightly colored flowers proclaim the approach of spring first of all and disappear quietly in the height of this flowering season.
March 16, 2013
Mitsumata (Edgeworthia chrysantha) and Ume ( (Prunus mume) flowers in Tokei-ji
The enchanting colors of flowers are returning gradually to the gardens of Zen, together with the delightful spring warbles of birds among the leafy trees and the pleasant fragrances in the balmy breeze.
Every flower blooms and scatters for letting us wake up to the transient but precious beauty of our world.
In Buddhist culture, a flower symbolizes the infinite mercy and wisdom of Buddha.
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