The Seven Autumn Flowers
(Tokyo on Sep.22)
The Seven Autumn Flowers are the typical seven flowers bloom in autumn. The poet Yamanoue-no-okura(660`733) wrote them in "Waka"(a 31-syllabe Japanese poem). They are Hagi(a bush clover), Susuki(Japanese pampas grass), Kudzu(an arrowroot), Nadeshiko(a pink), Ominaeshi(a patrinia scabiosae folia), Fujibakama(a throughwort) and Kikyo(Chinese bellflower). The Seven Autumn Flowers are not only nice to look at but are good for medicine. We can see only three of them, Hagi, Susuki, Kudzu in the field in these days. Especially, Fujibakama used as a perfume, endangers its species. The flowers in the picture are bush clovers and their roots were used to relieve a cough and as a medicine for stomach.
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