厄年 Yakudoshi (unlucky ages)

神社に厄年の年齢が掲示されていました。

There was a table of ages of the unlucky years at a shrine.

Yakudoshi:
Yakudoshi is a set of unlucky age handed down in Japan. There are not the scientific basis, but many people still believe it.
Unlucky years are different for men and women. In case of a man, it is 25, 42, 61 and in case of woman, it is 19, 33, 37.  In particular, the age of 42 for men and of 33 for women are called the age of major calamity.
Both the previous year of Yakudoshi and the next year are also unlucky years.

In this case, we count our age in the traditional Japanese age system explained below. When a child is counted as one year old at birth and becomes one year older on every New Year's Day.

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御衣黄が見頃 Gioiko at their best

そんなにそっくりかえるほど開かなくても良いのに。

You need not warp so much to bloom.

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野蒜 wild rocambole

美味しいとは思わないけど、旬を楽しみました。

It was not so delicious, but I enjoyed seasonal spring produce.

花がつかなかった flower did not bloom

今年はどうしたことか、芽が堅いままで、僅かに花をつけただけでした。

I wonder what the reason is. This weeping cherry tree only slightly produced flowers with buds being hard this year.

ムスカリ grape hyacinth

ムスカリの密はどんな味なのでしょう。

The honey of the grape hyacinth will be what kind of taste.

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花びら散る petals are gone

花吹雪、一斉に散る潔さ

We think the state that cherry blossoms are scattered all at once to be the same as the will of the samurai.

flew away in the wind

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floating on the water

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満開のシャクナゲ rhododendron in full bloom

シャクナゲは蕾から満開になると、がぜんと魅力を増します。蕾はなんだか腑抜けの感じがします。密に咲いた満開の花にはとても魅力があります。

About the rhododendron, the bud looks like a thing without spirit, but the bunch of flowers in full bloom are very attractive.

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