Weeping Japanese apricot with " Beauty " Japanese calligraphy

The color and the appearance is elegant.

It's like a messenger of spring.

Blooming has begun.

Gardener spent long years in pruning. 

for its small period. 

Light scent wraps us....

During few thousand years, apricot was the flower on behalf of Japan.

Many Waka has been dedicated to it.

To the crystal of the beauty

紅に　色をば変へて　梅の花　　香ぞことごとに　匂はざりける

紀　貫之 (872 – 945)　　　　後撰和歌集

to rouge　　change the color　　apricot blossom　　　scent will come　floating around each　

Ki no Tsurayuki (872 – 945)　　Gosen Wakashū

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"美"(bi, or utsukusii)　It is translated as Beauty.

This character is written by Kanzi, Semi-cursive script.

Etymology : 　羊 (sheep) 　+ 　大 (big, great)

The sheep has the meaning of the animal of the sacrifice with it used as a gift in religious service.

This letter may have expressed the beauty of the religious service.

梅の花　匂の深く　見えつるは　　春の隣の　ちかきなりけり

三統元夏 (? – ?)　　　　拾遺和歌集

Flowering apricot　　deep scent　　I can feel　　　next to spring　　approaching itslf　　　

Santou Genka (? – ?)　　Shūi Wakashū

by With24. I show the respect for him.

梅が香を　たよりの風や　吹つらん　　春めづらしく　君がきませる

平兼盛 (? –991)　　　　　　後拾遺和歌集

scent of apricot　　such as mail　　wind is blowing　　　curiously thing　　You visited in spring

Taira no Kanemori (? –991)　　Goshūi Wakashū

Apricot is the blessed tree as the myrtle.　And it may be similar.

いとすぎは、いばらに代って生え、ミルトスの木は、おどろに代って生える。これは主の記念となり、また、とこしえのしるしとなって、絶えることはない。

旧約聖書　イザヤ書　55章13節

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.　　

Old Testament　Isaiah　55:13

God bless you.

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