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leap day -
the haiku frogs jump
to new heights





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leap day 閏日 uroobi, junjitsu （うるうび、じゅんじつ）
kigo for early spring

February 29
2012年2月29日

Schalttag, Schaltjahr

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A leap year (or intercalary year)
is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year.

For example, in the Gregorian calendar, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.

By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year.

Leap Day
February 29 is a date that occurs only every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure, because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365.000 days.

A person born on February 29 may be called a "leapling" or "leaper". In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on 28 February or 1 March.

Chinese calendar
The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so a leap year has an extra month, often called an embolismic month after the Greek word for it. In the Chinese calendar the leap month is added according to a complicated rule, which ensures that month 11 is always the month that contains the northern winter solstice. The intercalary month takes the same number as the preceding month; for example, if it follows the second month (二月) then it is simply called "leap second month" (traditional Chinese: 閏二月).

Folk traditions
In the English speaking world, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. While it has been argued that the tradition was initiated by Saint Patrick or Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, it is dubious as the tradition has not been attested before the 19th century.

Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow. Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to the modern leap day, 29 February, or to the medieval leap day, 24 February.

According to Felten: "A play from the turn of the 17th century, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis,' has it that 'this is leape year/women wear breeches.' A few hundred years later, breeches wouldn't do at all: Women looking to take advantage of their opportunity to pitch woo were expected to wear a scarlet petticoat -- fair warning, if you will."



In Denmark, the tradition is that women may propose on leap day 24 February and that refusal must be compensated with 12 pairs of gloves.

In Greece, it is believed that getting married in a leap year is bad luck for the couple[citation needed]. Thus, mainly in the middle of the past century, couples avoided setting a marriage date in a leap year.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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2008 - a LEAP year ...

The 2008 Year of the Frog Global campaign will achieve its goal of helping keep threatened amphibians afloat through the amazing and dedicated efforts of individuals, institutions and regional zoo associations from all around the planet.
http://www.amphibianark.org/YOTFnews.htm



WKD : Basho and his Frog
Hundred Frogs and The Sound of Water
(Mizu no Oto)
.. READ : one hundred frogs


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leap year --
working one day longer
for my pay

Isabelle Prondzynski, 2008


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2012 - a LEAP year ...



. original at illust-library.com


Daruma jumps
to new hights -
this leap day

. Haiku and Daruma san .


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this leap day -
let's all jump
in the Haiku Pond



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leap year
an ol' frog
sleeps in 　

Don Baird





Leap Day... I wonder if Bashou knew?!　

Dennis Chibi




leap year . . .
a last baby step
before march　

Elaine Andre




leap year day . . .
an immigrant asks directions
to his childhood home　

Sandip Sital Chauhan


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a rainbow leaps!
swatting yellow jackets
on Kern River

Jimmy ThePeach


Rainbow Trout - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Kern River - More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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leap year ---
a Bronx Zoo tree kangaroo
doesn't know what all the fuss about　


a rain storm---
makes a leap day feel
much longer

Fred Masarani


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Vieillir... mais pas trop vite
son anniversaire
tous les quatre ans.


Aging... but not too fast
her birthday
every four years.

Patrick Fetu


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Uniqlo UK sent out a special advertisement on Leap Day,
with what I take to be a haiku :

take a leap
into our lucky dip --
only today
~Uniqlo ad

And another haiku of mine, same day :

leap day --
walking down the stairs
with an extra bounce

~ Isabelle Prondzynski

May we all have an extra bounce in our step this leap year!



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this leap year -
one day older
than last year　


the end of February
additional day for
salary

Gennady Nov


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I was inspired by the Leap Day Folk Traditions !



iThings -
the world grows
smaller each day


sunlight casts doubt...
will a warm february
leap into a cold march?　

Pat Geyer



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snow dances with limbs
turning fouettes and jétés
this leap year

Kit Nagamura






a cold leap day
it snows in Tokyo
rarely long boots

Hideo Suzuki



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nearly leap day--
the class teacher complains
about salary payment

Eric Mwange




Leap Day --
and where was I now
four years ago?

Catherine Njeri



drunken driver --
a young man was killed
this leap day

Isabelle Prondzynski


MORE

. WKD : Leap Daya in Kenya .



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haiku - leaping begins
first city
to see the light

Benita Kape




the old man takes
his first walk in months -
leap day

Bill Kenney


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another day
covered in snow -
my leap day


every day
is haiku day -
this leap day



leap day trouble -
my server looses
the connection






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A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied
to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day
close to the mean solar time.
The next leap second will be inserted on
June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC.

©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


leap second --
my shadow becomes
longer

Chen-ou Liu, Canada

Note:
At the earliest moment in the morning, a team of scientists at the Paris Observatory added a leap second "to make up for a gradual slowdown in the Earth's rotation."


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WKD Reference: Calendar Systems of the World


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icicles and Kisagata

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cold sunshine -
the icicles refuse
to melt

rondo in my valley -
now snowfall
now sunshine


Morning minus seven centigrade
Mid-day minus three centigrade



next morning, Monday 31

minus nine -9℃　



kylmä auringon paiste -
jääpuikot kieltäytyvät
sulamasta


My Icicle haiku in Finnish, translated by
Juhani Tikkanen
(facebook)


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and this is how America feels in the last few days, too much snow

Snow My Gosh
Snomageddon
Snowpocalypse
Snowtorious
Snowzilla

all snover again

Mega Snowstorm Pounds Moves East with Snow, Ice, Freezing Temperatures

A colossal winter storm dropping snow and ice from Texas to Maine has left two thirds of the nation facing downed power lines, shuttered highways and thousands of airport cancellations.
source : abcnews.go.com


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drinking at the lake
first it is sunny
then it rains

SU DONG-PO (1037-1101)


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象潟の欠をかぞへて鳴千鳥
kisagata no kake wo kazoete naku chidori

counting the remains
of Kisa Lagoon...
a singing plover

This haiku has the prescript: "Into the bowels of the earth." Kisa Lagoon (Kisagata) was ravaged by an earthquake in Sixth Month, 1804. The effect, according to Shinji Ogawa, was that the seabed was raised and the "beautiful scenery like a miniature archipelago suddenly became dry land."
Tr. and comment, David Lanoue


象潟や蛍まぶれの早苗舟
kisagata ya hotaru mabure no sanae fune

Kisagata lagoon -
fireflies sparkle
around the rice-planting boat

. Kobayashi Issa 　小林一茶 .


When I visited Kisakata in Akita, it was not a lagoon any more, an earthquake in 1804 had lifted the ground and many former islands where standing above the ground.
The landscape is most impressive, often compared to the islands of Matsushima.






象潟や 雨に西施が ねぶの花
kisakata ya ame ni seishi ga nebu no hana

Kisagata lagoon,
in the rain Xishi,s eyes are closed
blossoms of the silk tree
Tr. Massih


A flowering silk tree in the sleepy rain of Kisakata
Reminds me of Lady Seishi
In sorrowful lament
Tr. Nobuyuki Yuasa

Matsuo Basho


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Matsuo Basho - Oku no Hosomichi
. Tsuruoka and Kisakata 鶴岡　と　象潟 (きさかた).


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first snow

first snow - the patterns of roof tiles in black and white

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. First Snow - hatsuyuki
at GokuRakuAn .



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Kamakura Gingko Tree

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Kamakura and the old Gingko Tree...


March 10, 2010

just saw the news, it fell down this morning ...

can you believe it, a tree of more than 800 years ... is now lying there like a dead elder ...

Probably not uprooted by the snowstorm, but because the roots have been eaten up by old age and could not hold it any more.
He was always a great joy with the yellow leaves in autumn.

It looked like an old friend dead on the ground.

For more than 15 years, I used to go regularly to the the Archery Hall in Hachimangu to practise Kyudo and looking at this huge tree was always a comfort and joy.

The tree was dedignated as a natural monument of Kanagawa prefecture in 1955.


Today, March 10,
The priests and shrine maiden poored consecrated sake over the uprooted trunk, put salt on it and performed purification rituals.
I wonder what will happen to this tree now.


This is a great shock to all who love Kamakura !!




quote from mainichi.jp

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my giant old friend
has taken a final fall ...
spring storm




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quote from chugoku-np.co.jp


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The tree had a trunk circumference of 6.8 meters
and was about 30 meters high.
It is said to have witnessed the
assasination of Minamoto no Sanetomo
源 実朝, September 17, 1192 – February 13, 1219.


Assassination



Under heavy snow on the evening of February 12, 1219
(Jōkyū 1, 26th day of the 1st month), Sanetomo was coming down from the Senior Shrine at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū after assisting to a ceremony celebrating his nomination to Udaijin.
His nephew (the son of second shogun Minamoto no Yoriie) Kugyō (Minamoto no Yoshinari) came out from next to the stone stairway of the shrine, then suddenly attacked and assassinated him.
For his act he was himself beheaded few hours later, thus bringing the Seiwa Genji line of the Minamoto clan and their rule in Kamakura to a sudden end.
©　More about Sanetomo in the WIKIPEDIA !




At the left of its stairway used to stand a 1000 year old ginkgo, but the tree was uprooted by a storm at about 4am on March 10, 2010.
©　More about the shrine Hachimangu in the WIKIPEDIA !


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A 1,000-year-old giant ginkgo tree
in front of the main hall of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine here has been knocked down, apparently by strong winds.

At around 4:40 a.m. on Wednesday, a security guard at the shrine found the famous tree -- designated as a natural monument by Kanagawa Prefecture in 1955 -- knocked down with its trunk snapped.

The security guard reportedly heard a loud thumping sound, like that of "heavy covering of snow falling to the ground," about three times at around 4:15 a.m. After hearing a sound like a lightening strike, he found the tree collapsed on the ground.

The maximum wind velocity at that time was 12 meters per second, according to the Fire Fighting Head Office in Kamakura.

Chikayasu Hamano, a professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture, attributed a blizzard from late Tuesday afternoon as the main cause of the tree's collapse, in addition to heavy rain from February that softened the ground. Hamano also commented that it is impossible to save the tree.

At the end of 2009, the shrine started to consider conservation steps for the giant tree, with inspections by Hamano finding no problems with the health of the tree.

Shigeho Yoshida, the chief priest of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, is too shocked to comment on the matter, a shrine official said. Other priests, who are also in shock, made spiritual gestures by offering rice and sake to the collapsed tree.

The giant ginkgo tree, well known as a symbol of the shrine, was dubbed
"Kakure Icho" (hidden ginkgo) since monk Kugyo hid behind the tree when he assassinated Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, in January 1219.

source : mdn.mainichi.jp



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BIG FONT LINK 　


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Photos from my friend Mark Schumacher in Kamakura
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Mark Schumacher, Kamakura
GODS of Japan, A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhism


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鶴岡八幡宮：
大銀杏、倒れる　樹齢１０００年、実朝暗殺の舞台

１０日午前４時４０分ごろ、神奈川県鎌倉市雪ノ下の鶴岡八幡宮（吉田茂穂宮司）の本殿前にある県指定天然記念物「大（おお）銀杏（いちょう）」が、根元付近から折れて倒れているのを警備員が見つけた。９日夕から続いた強風が原因とみられる。けが人はなかった。大銀杏は鎌倉幕府三代将軍、源実朝（さねとも）の暗殺事件の「隠れ銀杏」として知られる。同八幡宮関係者は「あり得ないことだ」とぼうぜんとしている。

八幡宮によると、大銀杏は幹回り６・８メートル、高さ約３０メートルで樹齢は１０００年とされる。午前４時１５分ごろ、当直の警備員が３回ほど「ドンドン」という音を聞いた。警備員は「積もった雪が落ちる音だと思った」という。その後、落雷のような音がしたため、様子を見に行くと大銀杏が倒れていた。市消防本部によると、当時の最大瞬間風速は１２メートル。

source
http://mainichi.jp/select/weathernews/news/20100310dde041040006000c.html


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Update March 13, 2010

Maybe they can revitalize the big Gingko Tree ?
Professor Hamano Chikayasu from the Tokyo University of Agriculture is working hard on the problem.



Hopefully the trunk will grow new roots if properly cared for.

According to shrine officials, the trunk will be cut off about four meters above the fracture and planted near the root remaining in the ground after removing extra branches.
source : mdn.mainichi.jp



Update March 13, 2010

大銀杏（おおいちょう The Big Gingko Tree

The trunk has now been cut at 4 meters length, the new part weighing about 17 tons.
It has been replanted about 7 meters west to its old location near the stone stairs.
Many people came visiting the re-planting efforts, which finished at 1 o'clock on the 14th of March, 2010.







source
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/region/kanto/kanagawa/100313/kng1003132128012-n1.htm


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Update April 10, 2010

The first green sprouts are showing from the roots!

Three efforts to "revive" the tree:
from the roots, which were left as it fell.
from the newly planted trunk a few meters apart from the old place.
from branch grafts being grown in a tree nursery.




source : takezo
April 10, 2010

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Update December 13, 2010

Last night I was wondering about my old friend, and whow, what a surpirze today on TV.

NHK showed a live special about Hachimangu.

They showed the suzuharai, wiping the dirt and impurities of the year in preparation for the new year.
And of course, they showed the tree.

From the roots of the old tree many young spouts are coming up !

And from the implant a few meters afar also new sprouts are coming out of the old tree trunk.
Even without roots it still has the spirit and soul and power to grow and watch over the "young one" next to its side.


They also sell a new talisman with a tiny bit of the old tree branches.




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. KAMAKURA ... a Haiku Town 　
Takahama Kyoshi



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first cold spell clouds

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sudden cold spell -
waiting for a friend
at the station



The weather has suddenly changed, over night, so to say.
Rain and cold wind from Siberia pound this side of Japan, while typhoon 14 is brewing in the south.
Hokkaido is expecting the first snow of the season.


And we plan to have dinner outside . . . ? !



Well, it was too cold for anything outside.
And now, on the morning of 27, it was just five degrees centigrade ... brrr ... and we will be shivering through a cold day.

Our friend is sketching the landscape.

We had some splendid sky formations over the mountains and tanada rice fields ... and a splendid sunset pink storm clouds raging in straight from Siberia ...


next morning


sudden cold spell -
I need another thick
blanket




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　. . . 遊べ　世界の雲たちよ　






. Clouds playing in the sky
PHOTO ALBUM 　



. Sakuo san visiting
Photo album - backwards 　






秋日暮れ棚田に雲と遊びたり


autumn sunset
having played with clouds
in terraced rice fields

Sakuo




Thank you so much for your visit, Sakuo san !

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empty mind

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empty mind ...
I wonder who is chatting
inside




My Japanese sensei used to say

Empty your heart and mind completely, and receive the haiku as a present into this emptiness.
You can not MAKE a good haiku happen, it has to make itself through your empty mind.
Do not try to be witty or poetic or "deep" or anything ... just let nature do the talking through you.


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Selflessness
Bruce Ross

If affective perception determines much of haiku feeling, selfless perception often determines how haiku consciousness exists. For this reason Robert Spiess, the long-time editor of Modern Haiku, preferred the term "feeling" (senses centred on nature, aware) to "emotion" (very strong subjective feeling centred on non-rational mind) when discussing haiku poetics.

At the most basic level the personal "I" is usually left out of haiku. Basically, the personal "I", the Freudian ego and its mental constructs, let us say its emotion, gets in the way of the haiku experience. Empirical procedures and rational thinking that determine the Western mind also get in the way.

The Zen Buddhist idea of an empty mind, the openness to phenomenological presence, is suggestive of an appropriate mental climate.

A Zen saying explains the situation: "One thought follows another without interruption. But if you allow these thoughts to link up to a chain, you put yourself in bondage".

How does one not get bogged down in thought and experience haiku consciousness? A haiku by Kai Falkman offers a response:

the skier stops
to leave room
for the snow's silence

The first two lines of this poem describe the cessation of what Zen Buddhists call the "monkey mind", a continuous flow of thought. Enlightenment or clear mind, the present-tense clarity of perception, cannot occur when the monkey mind is present.
In effect one must clear one's mind to allow things to speak for themselves.
The phenomenological reduction, the skier stopping, accomplished, the snow, its silence, can speak for itself. Here the personal "I" is not used. The poet, his will, is not stopping the skis. The snow's silence is. The "I" is not what is important. What is important is the snow's silence. The stopping is a mere notation leading to the snow's silence. In many ways this poem becomes an evocation of a kind of enlightenment experience.

A monk asked Li-shan: "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
"There is no ‘what' here," said Li-shan.
"What is the reason??"
"Just because things are such as they are," replied Li-shan.

- Zen mondo

source : The Essence of Haiku
By Bruce Ross. autumn 2007


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ZEN KOAN METHOD
Empty your Mind and enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind
Lao Tzu Chapter 11

11.Usefulness of Emptiness
Empty your Mind

Thirty spokes are united in one hub (to make a wheel);
But the usefulness(the function) of the wheel depends on the empty space- the center hole of the hub.
Clay is molded into a vessel or a bowl
But it is the empty space within that makes it useful.

Doors and windows are cut out of the walls of a house,
But it is the empty (open) space inside that makes it useful (livable) .

Therefore take advantage of what exists (what the mind receives),
But use the emptiness (to open a way to enter in tune with the Cosmic Mind).



円相 ENSOO





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frieden und freude
zerplatzen . . .
zen zen zen




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lily to be born ubayuri

what is her face before she was born ? koan in the making ................................................................................. DAY 02 ................................................................................. DAY 03 ................................................................................. DAY 04 taking a look inside the flower heart - koan fulfilled ................................................................................. DAY 05 looking in wonder - the open mouth of my lily what was her face - she never asked she never asked ................................................................................. DAY 06 all the beauty withered and gone - - - what was her face ?

Koan and Haiku - 公案と俳句

. What is your original face
before your parents were born?





. My Lily with Grashoppers Wedding
in 2008


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January 2011



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August 2012 - first sunshine on the ubayuri







September 2012





expectations
and new dreams
side by side








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August 1, 2014

There are now four lilies in the same place, two are open today.











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View from my kitchen window, the next rainy morning. . .


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- Reference : Ubayuri lily - 姥ユリ　－ウバユリ -
Cardiocrinum cordatum



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