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o-zooni, oh mochi

28 Jan 2015 6 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku Tags: Japanese, soup, vegetable, zooni

husband boils water

japanese vegetable soup

toasted rice cake floats

secret recipe

kale, cabbage, chrysanthemum

mystery supper

what’s in your zooni ?

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Zooni is a traditional new year’s soup often served with mochi (rice cake).

Recipes vary by region (and taste).

Haiku linked to Carpe Diem…

vaporous thoughts

27 Jan 2015 2 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku Tags: fog, haze, sleep, thoughts

misty morning haze

more than weather is foggy

sleep deprivation

eye of the pheasant

21 Jan 2015 6 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku Tags: Japanese, long life, New Year, pheasant's eye

This beautiful bloom is Pheasant’s eye, fukujusō, or New Year’s Day Plant. It grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, and so… some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January…The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, “prosperity grass” or “longevity grass”. (information from CDHK, see link below)

japanese new year

fukujusoo wishes you

good fortune, long life

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Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…Happy New Year!