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yellow rice-fields <>
cluster amaryllis paint
red borders



cluster amaryllis, manjuushage or also called
higan-bana, flowers for the autumn-equinox.

They grow wild here among our terraced rice fields.

Great picture with a butterfly
http://www.city.narita.chiba.jp/DAT/LIB/WEB/1/9_2.jpg
http://www.city.narita.chiba.jp/english/photo/9/9_2.html

Etsuko san has a wonderful picture right now
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/


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oh amaryllis,so lonely and isolate,are you there by choice?
(translated by Christpher Dale)

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¡¡Looking askance at the bustle of the world, drinking deeply of the
morning dew, in the corner quietly loitering, there is a definite air
of satori about the solitary flower, "so lonely and isolate", in this
scene.¡¡"Manjushage" is one of many names for "higan-bana", the
cluster amaryllis, so-called because it flowers around "aki no
higan", the autumnal eqinox. As if by volition, it always sprouts in
the same place every year, be it from amidst a bunch of weeds, or in
the shade of a tombstone, and so the author wonders if, in this case,
the isolation from the world is self imposed.

By the way, the above is from a good bilingual page.
http://www1.coralnet.or.jp/chika84/haiku1208b/world-5.html


another haiku link
http://perso.club-internet.fr/v_pascal/amaryllidaceae/ethno/higanbana-
sjis.htm

some postcards
http://www.williamsburgmarketplace.com/media/images/001/107/1148303_H0
4_hs.jpg


I am sure there is more, but my time is limited
Greetings from Japan
Gabi san