Peach Tree
A deciduous tree of the Rosaceae family, appreciated in Japan for its delicious fruit and lovely blossoms used as decorations for spring festivals
The peach tree is a deciduous fruit tree of the Rosaceae family, Prunus genus, and Amygdalus subgenus. These small trees grow to heights of 3 to 8 meters. 3-8 m. Their leaves are long and narrow, with pointed tips. Five-petaled flowers, ranging from pink to white or to deep red, bloom around April. Its large-ish, globular stone fruit contains a stone pit and ripens around from July to August. Some varieties include those produce peaches with dense fuzz on the skin, and others produce fruits that lack fuzz, (like such as nectarines). The flesh of the fruit ranges from light pink to whitish yellow to yellow. It tends to be plump and juicy, with a pleasant sweet, acidic flavor. of sweet acidity. The timber is yellow and is used for handcrafts. In traditional Chinese medicine, the pit kernel or seeds are (called tonin in Japanese and taoren in Chinese) and is used to remove toxins from the blood and to relieve pain, for blood purification and as painkillers, and the leaves are added to bathing water (momo-yu) to relieve heat rash. Ornamental varieties like including Hana Momo, Yaeshiro Momo, Kiku Momo, and Sagami Shidare are appreciated for their gorgeous blossoms. In addition to being grown as garden trees, peach trees they are used for bonsai and cut flower arrangements. kiribana flower cutting. Fresh peach blossoms are used in known for their use as arrangements for the Momo no Sekku (Peach Festival).
Peach trees, it is thought, originated in the upper reaches of China's Yellow River, are considered to be where the peach originated, and during the Han period (206 BC-220 AD), seven varieties were cultivated. They were Thought to have been brought to Japan at the beginning of the Nara period (710-794), it is believed, and the Japanese at that time called peaches they were called kemomo (fuzzy peaches). However, There is a theory, however, that the "momo no ki" ("peach tree") mentioned referenced in the Man'yoshu ("Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") may have actually been a yamamomo bayberry tree (yamamomo) or yoto star fruit tree (yoto), both trees with names containing the character for peach. According to the Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters"), Izanagi no Mikoto repelled an army of beings from Yomi (from the underworld) by throwing peaches at the invadersthem. During the Heian period (794-1185), peach blossom arrangements were used to decorate seasonal celebrations in the lunar Third Month, March and people enjoyed sake with floating peach petals floating in it (momo-zake). According to the Engi shiki ("Engi -Era Procedures"), peach branches and bows were used to expel get rid of disease-causing ekiki epidemic-causing demons during tsuina purification ceremonies at the Imperial court. And in the Edo period (1603-1868), a wide variety of peach trees bearing blossoms of different colors and shapes were cultivated, and sites famous for peach blossom viewing came to proliferated. According to Yamashiro meiseki junko shi (Famous Sites of Yamashiro Province), these sites included Yotsuya in Edo, Momozono in Nakano, and Fushimiyama (Momoyama) in Kyoto. In Matsuo Basho's poetry is the peach-themed haiku "Waga kinu ni Fushimi no momo no shizuku seyo" (Sprinkle my robe with dewdrops from the blossoms of Fushimi's peach trees)., including Edo's Yotsuya, Nakano's Momo-zono, and Kyoto's Fushimi-yama (Momo-yama), according to Yamashiro Meiseki Junko-shi ("Tours Around Yamashiro's Famous Sites"). Among the poems written by Basho Matsuois a peach-themed haiku:
Waga kinu ni / Fushimi no momo no / shizuku seyo
("Sprinkle my robe with / dewdrops from the blossoms of / Fushimi's peaches")
Peaches were believed to provide vitality, drive away evil, and connect this the present world with other worlds. The Chinese poet Tao Yuanming (365-427) must have been inspired by such beliefs about the power of peaches in his prose depiction of a land hidden from the outside world in the Shangri La-esque "Peach Blossom Spring." In Japan as well, there are customs of planting peach trees in the unlucky northeastern direction (referred to as kimon, the "demon gate") to ward off evil spirits, and of distributing to distribute tags made of peach wood during the Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival). In the folktale "Momotaro" ("Peach Boy"), peaches symbolize vitality. In 1868, the first year of the Meiji era, period (1868), imports from China and Europe led to the development of improved varieties, including cultivars for large-scale peach production such as Nunome-wase, Hakuho, Okubo, and Hakuto, and along with special regional varieties such as including Wase-momoyama, Miyako- Hakuho, and Asama -Hakuto. Current leading peach-producing prefectures today include Yamanashi, Fukushima, Nagano, Yamagata, and Okayama.
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