Thunderbird2 0 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I like those India of things., they look cool. Definitrly got to apget a candle in it. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 This is the stone thing I got off the old boy. I measured it and its more like 75 high and the same wide. I tried a tea light in it last week but you could barely notice it. With candles outside, you really need loads of them. One is just sabishii. Link to post Share on other sites
Hokkaidough 4 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 How much would one of them be worth, Mr Wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 That's well cool. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 It's hard to know because I've no eye for what good stone is, but I guess second hand on the auctions, maybe 20-30,000. New, maybe up towards 100,000 for that size. My inlaws are about to rebuild their place, so we might be able to pick up some more goodies. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 It sometimes helps not having an eye for what good 'naninani' is, doesn't it? Looks good that one Mr Wiggles. I'd like to take a photo of it! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Well we've got lots of trees you can photograph too! If you're heading this way just say the word. On the subject of trees, all the dogwoods (yamaboushi for the white Japanese one, or hanamizuki for the pink American one) are in bloom here at the moment. There's quite a lot of them along the road. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 How big is your land mr wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 We bought an old country house and it came with 550 tsubo, so about 1800 sq meters. The house backs onto a wooded slope, so half our land is (former) woodland. It was all covered in sugi conifers that were 20m or so high, but we had them chopped down. There was a real risk of them falling on the house. We've made a garden around the house, but the rest of the land isn't very well kept. Lots and lots of weeds. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 That's a big space you got there! Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 On the subject of trees, all the dogwoods (yamaboushi for the white Japanese one, or hanamizuki for the pink American one) are in bloom here at the moment. There's quite a lot of them along the road. These trees confuse me. We planted what we thought was a hanamizuki (magnolia, I thought), but it turned out to be a yamaboushi. Doesn't look like a dogwood to me, though (which we had when I was a kid). Then there's kobushi, which I thought was supposed to be a dogwood, but Wikipedia claims is a magnolia... Not really sure what is what any more, in either language... Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Tree names are weird. People call sugi cedars, but they are a different species. The famous cedar used for log cabins and decking, Western Red Cedar, isn't a cedar either. Its a cypress. People call ume plums, but Western plums are juicy and Japanese people call them "sumomo". An ume is firm and more like an apricot. I've never seen a dogwood outside Japan, so the word for me is simply what the dictionary says for yamaboushi/hanamizuki. I don't know what the right name is, but the flower is the same shape for those two, so they must be varieties of the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Thanks Mr Wiggles. I prefer yamaboushi to hanamizu. If only because "mountain hat" sounds better than "nose water". Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 What about a "frogs' hands"? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 What's that one, Mr Wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 kaeru no te = kaede Rather than a literal translation, it's where the name comes from. Rivet rivet! Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Interesting, Mr. Wiggles, I had no idea. Which led me to wonder why the heck the kanji is "wind tree," but Wikipedia tells me that the proper kanji was originally actually something else, but that other kanji didn't make it into the Joyo Kanji list. The wind-tree kanji, which did make it, came from another tree (pronounced "fuu") that looks kind of like the kaede. Learn something new every day! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Kaede's look lovely in a summer breeze with the little leaves rippling and catching the light in different directions, but yeah, the kanji was appropriated from another tree. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I do love the Japanese maples though. They're rather fetching. Link to post Share on other sites
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