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The photo is a two-shot of a herring and aconite taken on May 1st.。but、It's also a very frightening piece.。You can eat Nirinsou, but、This is because aconite is a plant that can be said to be synonymous with deadly poison.。

Windflower (left. with little white flower. It is called “Nirin-so” in Japan ) and Aconitum (right. monkshood. It is called “Tori-kabuto” also) are in this picture was taken on May 1th 2012 in Shimokita. “Nirin” means two flowers directly. “so” means weed. “Tori” is a bird . “kabuto” means japanese traditional hat. Both have similar leaves but actually they have opposit charactor in a sense. “Nirin-so” is edible. The other is very famous for its deadly poison.

white on the left、The cute flower is Nirinsou。The notch on the right is slightly deep.、Aconite is a little darker in color.。If you say they are similar, they are similar.。This may be natural since both belong to the Ranunculaceae family.。They also grow in the same place like this。The aconite is already starting to grow taller.、One week before the flowers of Nirinsou bloom、It should have been more similar。

Both of them are belong to a family of Ranunculaceae, so they are grown in the same place like this. Aconitums (monkshood) are taller than before, although I’m sure they both must be take after each more at one week ago.

Every year due to aconite poison、Several people die in Japan too.。Early spring with Nirinsou、In early summer, it is often mistaken for the wild vegetable Shidokei.。Either one、It is necessary to memorize things thoroughly and comprehensively for safety.。Aconite is also a flower、Also for pollen、honey is also poisonous。There is no antidote。Hobby beekeepers should be careful。

Some people will be die from poison of Aconitum every year in Japan. It has poison in not only flowers, pollens but also honey ! If you’d like to go into wild feeld and to take wild vegetables, you should better to get correct information.

Shimokita is a treasure trove of wild plants and wild plants.。Unspoiled nature is there。the road is extremely comfortable。In summer, the temperature in Shimokita is around 20 to 25 degrees.。No need for a cooler。rather colder。Walk through the refreshing mountains and fields、It's not bad to see the large clusters of dark blue flowers of aconite.。

Shimokita peninsula is like a paradise for wild flowers and wild vegetables. The weather will be good for driving, trekking etc in summer time. Enjoy for seeing big colonies filled up with deep blue flowers of Aconitums. 2012/5/2

Skunk cabbage is、It is one of the ``weeds'' that represent the Shimokita Peninsula.。Speaking of skunk cabbage, one immediately associates it with Oze.、I'm sure many people think it's an alpine plant.。In Shimokita, from 0m above sea level、Can grow anywhere as long as there is water、It's a rather "unsightly" weed.。

Skunk cabbage are one of representable weeds in Shimokita peninsula. Most people will associated them with alpine plants in Oze. They are grown everywhere wet over sea level.

Even if you say it's an eyesore、It's not that I hate skunk cabbage per se.。The place where it grows is Yaji.、In other words, this indicates that the wetlands cannot be used for any purpose.。What does it mean to see it everywhere?、As you can imagine。

Skunk cabbage are by no means welcomed here as the place living them means useless land called “yachi” or “yaji”. In Shimokita peninsula, there are a lot of white flowers all over the place.

2012/5/1

 

 

At my father's 49th memorial service、Returned to Shimokita/Higashidori Village。April 29th、Finishing the memorial service smoothly、Until then, the temporary tablets were placed in the village's resting place (gathering place for Nembutsu-ba).、prayer hall。It was moved to Mt. Osore (which has an interesting folk religious color similar to that of Mt. Osore).、My father is now one of my ancestors.。

I’ve been Higashi-dori village for my father’s memorial celemony based on buddism in Shimokita. It means 49 days passed from his death. It is quite common and important custom in Japan. After this celemony, all of living member of his family are able to do ordinary behavior. And then his spirit turn to one of our ancestors. 2012/4/30

In Japanese Buddhism、49 days after death has a very important meaning.。In Japanese Buddhism, the day of death is considered the first day.、Suppose that a trial is held every seven days regarding the merits of the dead during their lifetime.。The first seven days will be the first trial.、Even if you are dead, what will happen to your life and death in the afterlife?、I'm nervous because the first trial will be held for。There, the bereaved families support、trying to support、make the first offering。An offering is a donation to society.、This does not necessarily mean that it is performed for monks.。In short, the deceased、This means that the bereaved family will take care of the shortfall in social contribution.。And a trial is held every seven days.、The verdict will be concluded on the 7th and final trial.。Trials are always held in seven sessions.、The final episode is the most important。If it is out here, the dead cannot go to the Pure Land of Paradise.、will go to hell。Therefore, the bereaved family gives the last words to the deceased.、Load up with donations as a thank you、It is important to back up the deceased。There's no chance after this。This is why we say that the memorial service on the 49th is the most important.。

“After 49 days from death” has very impottant meaning for japanese buddism. They say that every death person must be on trial every 7 days after death about his contribution to society (it colled “kudoku” ) at their living time. If the judgement means too short, that death person can not go to Heaven. The 49 days mean the 7th trial. This is final and most impotant chance. S0 most bareaved family would like to help them from this living world. Actually we served gorgeous dinner and money to the buddist priest specially. Sometimes it seems that cost is very big money .

This memorial service is also for monks.、extremely important as a source of income。in modern Japan、It's as if Buddhism no longer exists.、It still has a large presence only when it comes to burying the dead.。The ``funeral economy'' is, so to speak, the lifeline of Japanese Buddhism.。Moreover, the sadness of the bereaved family、Relativize sadness、The gap between social needs to reduce psychological burden as much as possible、And in between the time pressure of decomposing corpses due to global warming,、Although it looks messy, it has a huge presence.。That is the modern significance of the 49-day memorial service.、We Japanese、There is no problem with funerals.、They have a strange national character.。

This celemony is not only important for death person but the priest also on a viewpoint of economy. In Japan, real buddism seems disappeared already but it has strongly existance around the celemony like this. Economy with death celemony is a life-line for japanese buddism indeed. Although most of japanese feel death celemony is out of all problem.