#persicaria thunbergii

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溝蕎麦[Mizosoba] Persicaria thunbergii

溝[Mizo] : Ditch, gutter

蕎麦[Soba] : Buckwheat

It grows in shady areas of wetlands, often in clumps. It is roughly eighty centimeters tall, and produces many small flowers, about five millimeters long, at the top of the stalks. The flowers are lovely in bloom, and in bud they look like 金平糖[Konpeitō], a confectionary, which are also lovely.

It is in the same family as 蓼[Tade](Smartweed), 蕎麦[Soba](Buckwheat), etc. and looks similar from a distance.

路のほとりに咲󠄁ける草にて葉と莖とは蕎麥に似て花󠄁は半ば薄紅なるが多く川邊にあり。蕪村が「水かれがれ蓼かあらぬか蕎麥か否か」といひしは此花󠄁にはあらずやと、見るたびに思ふなり。車夫に名を尋󠄁ねたれども知らず。或は溝蕎麥といふ者か。

[Michi no hotori ni sakeru kusa nite ha to kuki to wa soba ni nite hana wa nakaba usukurenai naru ga ooku kawabe ni ari. Buson ga「Mizu karegare tade ka aranu ka soba ka hi ka」to iishi wa kono hana niwa arazuya to, miru tabi ni omou nari. Shafu ni na wo tazunetaredomo shirazu. Aruiwa mizosoba to iu mono ka.]

A grass that blooms by the roadside, the leaves and stems resemble (those of) Buckwheat, and the flowers are half light crimson, a lot of it are in abundance by the riverside. Every time I see them, I wonder if Yosa Buson referred to these flowers when he said(read in his haiku) "Is it Smartweed, Buckwheat, or neither that is blooming in the drained rice field?" I asked the rickshaw puller its name, but he did not know. Perhaps this is what Mizosoba is? From 車上所見[Shajō shoken](Findings on the vehicle) by 正岡 子規[Masaoka Shiki] quoted from 写生文範[Shasei bunpan](Literary sketch models) by 福田 琴月[Fukuda Kingetsu](A writer of children's literature, 1875-1914) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/864852/1/49

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Water pepper (Persicaria thunbergii )

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Persicaria thunbergii   ミゾソバ

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Persicaria thunbergii

https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/naturetakarazuka/14527200.html

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Persicaria thunbergii by yong700

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ミゾソバ by myu-myu on Flickr.

[konjaku]

溝蕎麦[Mizosoba] Persicaria thunbergii

溝[Mizo] : Ditch, gutter

蕎麦[Soba] : Buckwheat

It is so named because it grows in marshy area and resembles buckwheat, a member of the same Persicaria family. It is also called 牛の額[Ushinohitai](Cattle's forehead). This is because the shape of its leaf is reminiscent of a cattle's face. 牛[Ushi] means cattle. And, also called 金平糖草[Konpeitōgusa] because the cluster of buds looks like 金平糖[Konpeitō], a confectionery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeitō

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ミゾソバ　中越　10月中旬　　１枚目：ホソヒラタアブが吸蜜，４枚目：白花

Persicaria thunbergii (Sieb. et Zucc.) H. Gross ex Nakai, also water pepper; one of the last blooming flowers when the harsh winter wind is ready to blow in this area.   First picture with Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer, 1776), a common flower fly known as marmalade hoverfly.   Fourth picture white petal variation.  Middle October, central Niigata.

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