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Japan Rain, Snow & Art15

Late May to June is the season of iris flowers in Japan. Irises are major flowers in Japanese gardens, some big temples and shrines. Purple of the flowers and glossy green of their leaves are symbolic of natural beauty of Japanese early summer.

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Japan Rain, Snow & Art15

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  1. JAPAN Rain, Snow & Art

  2. Seasons are a main theme in the Japanese culture. Flowers are like mirrors to the seasons, reflecting the passage of time. Fittingly, flower viewing is a very popular activity in Japan as most prominently seen in the annual festivities surrounding the cherry blossoms, but not limited to them

  3. From the end of May through early July, Japan experiences weeks and weeks of rain as if a monsoon season has arrived. Unlike the beating rainfall of monsoon, however, the rain this season is softer and never-ending. A bed of vivid purple flowers in such gloomy and silent background is truly breathtaking. The end of the Spring, flowers have changed from cherry blossoms and then azalea to iris. These flowers known by the name of iris in English has several types as Ayame, Kakitsubata, and Hana-shobu. All of them are very similar but the flowering time and the shape of leaf are subtly different

  4. Is now early summer but people connect the image of irises to rain rather the clear sky in Japan. Irises bloom in the fifth month of the year, during the rainy season known as samidare, when the rain falls gently and continuously 

  5. The iris is also known as hanashoubu, hana meaning “flower” and shoubu, a play on words that can mean “martial spirit” or “victory or defeat” as in a match or a showdown. Designs of hanashoubu and dragonflies were often stamped into tanned deerskin and worn into battle to protect a warrior

  6. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 4, 2009

  7. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 4, 2009

  8. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 20

  9. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 20

  10. From the end of May through early July, Japan experiences Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 133 Iris no. 58

  11. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 41

  12. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 43

  13. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 43 detail

  14. Kazutoshi Sugiura Iris no. 165 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 44

  15. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 46

  16. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 70

  17. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 93

  18. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 45

  19. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 45 detail

  20. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 145 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 52

  21. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 158

  22. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 62

  23. Kazutoshi Sugiura Iris no. 71 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 69

  24. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 72

  25. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938 Iris no. 74

  26. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938 Iris no. 75

  27. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 98

  28. Irises no. 94 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 78

  29. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 81

  30. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 95 Irises no. 99

  31. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 101 Irises no. 143

  32. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 101

  33. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 156

  34. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 156

  35. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 157

  36. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 161 Irises no. 127

  37. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 161 detail

  38. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 161 detail

  39. Irises no. 154 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 163

  40. Irises no. 105 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 97

  41. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 155

  42. Irises no. 110 Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 47

  43. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 136

  44. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 109 Irises no. 151

  45. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 134

  46. Irises no. 121b Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 109

  47. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 121b (detail)

  48. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Irises no. 142 Iris no. 160

  49. Kazutoshi Sugiura (Japan, 1938) Iris no. 59

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