Yomena Starwort

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Starwort leaves cooked with rice (yomenameshi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-spring
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

cooked rice with starwort leaves, yomena meshi
嫁菜飯 (よめなめし)





lit. it means "plant of the daughter in law"


yomena 嫁菜 (よめな ) starwort
a kind of starwort, a kind of wild aster.
Aster yomena. Kalimeris yomena

yomena tsumu 嫁菜摘む（よめなつむ）picking starwort
ubagi 莵芽木（うばぎ）、ohagi 薺蒿（おはぎ）
yomegahagi よめがはぎ、hagina はぎな


Starwort
Stellaria media, Caryophyllaceae
Sternenblume
. Michaelmas Daisy .


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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

背戸近く摘んでもてなすよめな飯　　　
sedo chikaku tsunde motenasu yomena meshi

I pick them close to the back door　
and prepare food for visitors ...
starwort cooked rice　　

Uemura Toshiko 上村とし子
Tr. Gabi Greve


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炊き上げてうすき緑や嫁菜飯　
takiagete usuki midori ya yomena meshi

when finally cooked
they look soft green ...
starwort in cooked rice

Sugita Hisajo　杉田久女
Tr. Gabi Greve


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a small universe
delivers my rice's companion...
starwort leaves

Heike Gewi
Yemen


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Related words


kigo for mid-autumn

***** yomena no hana 嫁菜の花 (よめなのはな)
starwort flowers
. . . CLICK here for Photos !


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kigo for mid-summer

nomi no fusuma 蚤の衾 (のみのふすま) "pillow for fleas"
bog chickweed
Stellaria alsine



It grows wild on the azemichi paths between rice paddies. Its flowering period is quite long, from April to October. Its small leaves look like a nice cushion for the fleas.


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. Nogiku, wild asters 　



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