In Japan, June is the rainy season, we call this month’s long spell of rainy weather “Tsuyu”. I like rainy season’s flower hydrangea (Ajisai). There is an old temple Nogoji/Nougoji at Menuma, Kumagaya city, Saitama prefecture, that was said to be built by monk Gyoki/Gyouki in 743, and rebuilt by Kobo/Koubou-daishi Kukai in 9 century. Now it is called “Ajisai-dera” as a temple of hydrangea.
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- Pink hydrangea at Nogoji temple
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- Lacecap hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla f. normalis)
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- Stone statues of Buddha
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- Hydrangea at Nogoji, Menuma
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- Purple hydrangea
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- Blue hydrangea
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- Purple hydrangea
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- white hydrangea
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- Nogoji’s stone statue of Buddha
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- Nogoji’s stone lantern
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- white hydrangea
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- 能満山能護寺, Nogoji-temple/Nougoji
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- Temple’s main building was made in 1814.
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- Nogoji-temple’s ceiling picture
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- Lively hydrangea
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- Bell was made in 1701.
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- White hydrangea
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- Hydrangea, Nogoji-temple
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- Hydrangeas
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- Blue hydrangea
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- Shed & hydrangea
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- Belfry & hydrangea
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- Blue and pink hydrangea
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- Hydrangea and Statue of Bodhisattva(?)
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- Hydrangea at Nogoji-temple
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- Statue of Kukai(?)
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Beautiful, just beautiful. It looks so peaceful.
Thank you for stopping by. They are so wonderful in the temple.
Me encantan las hortensias!! ¿has visto las mías?
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Hola. Ya miré tu blog. Gracias por haber venido. (Sorry for my poor Spanish.)
thanks to it, since I write as well english, hugs
GRacias a ti, ya quisiera yo escribir así el ingles, abrazos
What a coincidence, I got a lot of hydrangea flowers in my yard.
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In your area, is it rainy season? Or does hydrangea flower in summer without rainy season? I like your cat’s pictures. They are very cute!
Over here (Belgium) they also grow in the summer. Though it’s raining a lot lately…
I guess Belgium’s summer is not hotter than Japan. Tokyo’s temperature of summer,July and August, is over 30 degrees (about 80 Fahrenheit). It is too hot for hydrangeas, so June is best for them.
All the flowers are beautiful, but I’d give the lacecap hydrangea the blue ribbon.
My mother loves lacecap hydrangea so much, especially named “Sumidano Hanabi” which means the firework at Sumida river. It seems a fire-flower at the black summer sky.
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