bush clover

Though the pic is still cherry blossoms in Sendai city, this time of my walking is not about it, but the place where I took the pic. Around here, the region is named as Miyagino-ku or Miyagino-ward in Sendai city. "Miyagino" was an old name of this city, or I mean, this area (I think there might not be a city at that time) in over 1100 years ago that was even far before the samurai-era.

It was a Kyoto "kuge" era in this country, which was known as an aristocratic class era. The aristocrats in Kyoto enjoyed to make "waka", which is a traditional Japanese poetry, and sometimes they used the phrase, "Miyagino", in their poetry to long for the far away place as a quasi-fairyland. In 1100 years ago, Miyagino was near the border between the Kyoto governed and the non-Kyoto territory.

In the wakas, in short, poetry related to Miyagino, the aristocrat usually put the phase of bush clover, 'cause at that time everyone imaged the huge field covered with beautifully blossoms of bush clovers, not cherry trees.

Here was Miyagino, or Sendai city, Japan