Bug box: Rice paper butterfly / oogomadara.Bug box: Poking around pillbugs (dangomushi).Bug box: Longhorn beetle / kiposhi kamikiri-mushi.Bug box: Ladybugs – One of the good bugs.Bug box: Ladybird, ladybird fly away home.Bug box: Japanese beetles / popillia japonica.Bug box: Hunting and keeping stag-beetles.Bug box: How to tell a hoverfly from a honeybee.Bug box: How to attract lady bugs naturally & other facts.Bug box: First bugs of the year – Aphids.Bug box: Firefly Fantasy Lights, Firefly Tales and other Bug Tales.Bug box: Firefly breeding center in Tokyo.Bug box: Carpentar bees / bear bees (kumabachi).Bug box: A caterpillar is no match for the wasp.Bug box news: Mystery of Missing Bees of Miyazaki May 25, 2007.Bug box news: How to halt the bumblebee decline.Bug box news: Global warming and the insect populations (January 16, 2008).Bug box news: Dragonflies are mostly migratory.Leiothrix – a relative newcomer to the forests of Japan.Cute little kingfishers brighten up Japanese ponds.BIRDING BOX: Japanese crested ibis (Toki).BIRDING BOX: Birds of Hokkaido (Various types of Tits, Blakiston Fish-Owl, Eurasian Nuthatch).BIRDING BOX: “Devil birds” Japanese woodpeckers.A welcome guide to your neighborhood birds by Daily Yomiuri nature-writer Kevin Short.This year, however, autumn has been so mild that both leaves and berries can still be seen making graceful arcs in parks and gardens. As the leaves wither, the berries are left behind. Its small berries appear in autumn, taking on a deeper, lustrous hue as the season advances. In turn, the brilliant but retiring court lady who actually wrote the novel became known as Murasaki, and the modest purple-berried shrub of Japan was given her name. Murasaki is Japanese for purple, and in the novel the lovely child was named after the murasaki plant, a small forget-me-not that yielded a delicate purple dye. This week’s plant takes us back more than 1,000 years to two “Lady Purples.” The heroine of “The Tale of Genji” is the gentle and beautiful Murasaki, whom Prince Genji adopts as a child. She looked shyly aside.”įrom “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu, ![]() ‘You have grown,’ he said, lifting a low curtain back over its frame. ![]() Murasaki, too, was dressed to perfection. The young women and little girls were all very pretty in autumn dress. The bush becomes a focal point when complemented with yellow flowering partners. This is quite a favorite of the Japanese among native ornamental berry plants. It’s not only called Beauty Berry for nothing, but also has a literary and romantic name in Japanese – Murasaki Shikibu – after a lady of the court of the Heian Period who wrote the world’s first romance novel called “Tale of the Genji”.
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