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Last update: 6/18/2019\r\nMitsui Shinna三井親和 Noble Plants and Flowers, Part 2 of :聖鳥獸と貴木花\r\nSourcing the poems in this six panel screen from right (from viewer):\r\n\r\n松 Pine\r\nCalligraphy: 冬春無異色 朝暮有清風\r\nFound in SKQS\r\nSource: 集部/總集類/御定佩文齋詠物詩選/卷二百七十七\r\nPoem Title: Pine Growing in the Rock石子松 (Shi Zi Song)\r\nPoet: Chu Guangxi儲光羲\r\nDynasty: Tang 唐 \r\n盤石青巖下、松生盤石中。\r\n冬春無異色、朝暮有清風。\r\n五鬛何人採、西山舊兩童。\r\n\r\nFrom winter to spring, there is no difference in color. *\r\nFrom dawn to dusk, there is clean breeze.\r\n\r\n*This is a poem about the pine tree(s), so I believe 色 is the color of the tree (or leaves) and not the season.\r\n\r\n竹 Bamboo\r\nCalligraphy: 雨洗娟々净 風吹細々香 \r\n[The recorded poetic line: 雨洗娟娟淨 風吹細細香]\r\n\r\nFound in SKQS\r\nPoem Title: Composing a Poem on the Bamboo at the House of Duke Yan Zheng嚴鄭公宅同詠竹 (Yan Zheng Gong Zhai Tong Yong Zhu)　　　\r\nPoet: Du Fu杜甫　\r\nDynasty: Tang唐\r\n\r\n綠竹半含籜、新梢纔出牆。\r\n色侵書幌晚、隂過酒樽凉。\r\n雨洗娟娟淨、風吹細細香。\r\n但令無剪伐、㑹見拂雲長。\r\n\r\nSource: 集部/總集類/御定佩文齋詠物詩選/卷三百三十五\r\nThe rain washes and brings forth its* elegant cleanliness.\r\nThe wind blows and draws out its subtle fragrance. \r\n\r\n*its = bamboo’s \r\n\r\n\r\n梅　Plum/ Japanese Apricot*\r\n*Prunus mume is a Latin academic name of this plant, so I don’t think it is suitable for translating poems.\r\nCalligraphy: 色連千嶂月，香散一簾風\r\n\r\nPoem Title: Ink Plum墨梅圖 (Mo Mei Tu)\r\nPoet: Li Yu 李漁\r\nDynasty: Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasty 明末清初\r\n庭空月無影，夢暖雪生香。\r\n歲寒冰雪裡，獨見一枝來。\r\n暗香清入座，疏影痩横窗。\r\n色連千嶂月，香散一簾風。\r\nSource: 藝蘭齋蔵書畫選\r\n\r\nThe color of Prunus shown in the moonlight looks like a cliff\r\nthe fragrance of Prunus scatters with a waft of wind.\r\n\r\n[OR:\r\nThe color of plum stretches in a row like thousands of cliffs to which moonlight is cast upon,\r\nThe fragrance of plum spreads like a screen lifted by the wind.]\r\n\r\n\r\n柳willow\r\nCalligraphy: 枝枝總到地、葉葉自開春。\r\nFound in SKQS\r\n\r\nPoem title: 柳邊 \r\nPoet: Du Fu杜甫 \r\nDynasty: Tang唐\r\n\r\n只道梅花發、那知栁亦新。\r\n枝枝總到地、葉葉自開春。\r\n紫燕時飜翼、黄鸝不露身。\r\n漢南應老盡、霸上逺愁人。\r\n\r\nSource: 集部/總集類/御定佩文齋詠物詩選/卷二百八十九\r\n\r\nThe branches all reach the ground,\r\nThe leaves themselves begin to bud in spring.\r\n\r\nA poem about ephemerality and the transience of all things\r\n[Comment (Yumi): I don’t think the branches are falling to the ground because the line before says the willow is “new,” and because the leaves on the branches are burgeoning. Rather, I think that the branches are growing so much that they almost reach the ground. Also, I don’t exactly know how to put “spring” in the English translation, but in Japanese it would be 枝枝総て地に到り葉葉自ら春に開く。]\r\n\r\n\r\n蘭 Orchid\r\nFound in SKQS\r\nCalligraphy: 輕香含露潔 紫艶映渠*鮮\r\nPoem title: Orchid蘭 \r\nPoet: Li Deyu李徳裕 \r\nDynasty: Tang唐\r\n(Note in the actual poem the two five word fragments appear in reversed order)\r\n楚客重蘭蓀、遺芳今未歇。\r\n葉抽清淺水、花㸃暄妍節。\r\n紫艶映渠鮮、輕香含露潔。\r\nSource: 集部/總集類/御定佩文齋詠物詩選/卷三百五十三\r\nTranslation: \r\nThe light fragrance is contained in the clean dew.\r\nThe alluring purple color is reflected in the bright brook* (mist*).\r\n* The actual character does not look like 渠but like露. If that is the case, the translation needs to be altered.\r\n[Comment (Yumi): 艶 means more than vivid; rather, it has a nuance of charming, alluring or even voluptuous character.]\r\n\r\n\r\n菊 Chrysanthemum\r\nCalligraphy: 一色侵階翠 千枝滿檻黃\r\nPoet: unknown\r\nSource: 清朝乾隆年間、劉文蔚編輯之　「詩学含英」\r\nTranslation: \r\nA single color (yellow) immerses* the fresh green staircases,\r\nThousands of chrysanthemum adorn the railings in yellow.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n