🌈😎AZALEAS🌤️🙌

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

AZALEAS️

just as wonderful
as the expensive garden stone...
azaleas
百両の石にもまけぬつつじ哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1825.
Trans. David Lanoue.

Hard on the heels of the last cherry blossoms comes the ubiquitous azalea. Gaudy, dazzling and often over the top, it's one of my favourite flowers

[willow@social.translunar.academy]

@camelliakyoto @azalea

[camelliakyoto@mastodon.social]

Known as 'tsutsuji' (躑躅/つつじ) in Japanese, azaleas were first cultivated in Japan in the Kamakura period (there are around 40 original varieties).
Their popularity really took off in Edo times, and the flowers can now be found growing in every corner of the city.
#Japan #京都