合歓木[Nemunoki]
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The name of its kanji is an ateji(substitute characters) and its reading means 眠りの木[Nemuri no ki](Tree of sleep).
「夏の花が好きなひとは、夏に死ぬつていふけれども、本當かしら。」
けふもお母さまは、私の畑仕事をじつと見ていらして、ふいとそんな事をおつしやつた。私は默つておナスに水をやつてゐた。ああ、さういへば、もう初夏だ。
「私は、ねむの花が好きなんだけれども、ここのお庭には、一本も無いのね。」
と、お母さまは、また、しづかにおつしやる。
「夾竹桃がたくさんあるぢやないの。」
私は、わざと、つつけんどんな口調で言つた。
「あれは、きらひなの。夏の花は、たいていすきだけど、あれは、おきやんすぎて。」
「私なら薔薇がいいな。だけど、あれは四季咲󠄁きだから、薔薇の好きなひとは、春に死んで、夏に死んで、秋に死んで、冬に死んで、四度も死に直さなければいけないの。」
[「Natsu no hana ga suki na hito wa, natsu ni shinu tte iu keredomo, hontō kashira.」
Kyō mo okaasama wa, watashi no hatakeshigoto wo jitto mite irashite, fui to sonna koto wo osshatta. Watashi wa damatte onasu ni mizu wo yatte ita. Ā, sō ieba, mō shoka da.
「Watashi wa, nemu no hana ga suki nanda keredomo, koko no oniwa niwa, ippon mo naino ne.」
to, okaasama wa, mata, shizuka ni ossharu.
「Kyōchikutō ga aru ja naino.」
Watashi wa, wazato, tsukkendon na kuchō de itta.
「Are wa, kirai nano. Natsu no hana wa, taitei suki dakedo, are wa, okyan sugite.」
「Watashi nara bara ga iina. Dakedo, are wa shikizaki dakara, bara no suki na hito wa, haru ni shinde, natsu ni shinde, aki ni shinde, fuyu ni shinde, yotabi mo shininaosanakereba ikenaino?」]
"They say that people who love summer flowers die in summer, is that true?"
Today, as my mother was watching me work in the fields again, happened to say something like that. I was watering the eggplants mutely. Ah, come to think of it, it's already early summer.
"I like flowers of Nemu(Silk tree), but there is none (of that tree) in this garden."
My mother says quietly again.
"There's a lot of Kyōchikutō(Oleander)."
I said in a deliberately brusque tone.
"I don't like them. I like most of the summer flowers, but that one is too pert for me."
"I love roses. But those bloom in all seasons, so does a person who likes roses have to die in spring, die in summer, die in autumn, die in winter, and die again four times that way?"
From 斜陽[Shayō](The Setting Sun) by 太宰 治[Dazai Osamu]
Source : https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1086017/1/37
Novelist 檀 一雄[Dan Kazuo], who was having drinks with several people at a bar, later wrote that Dazai was severely asked by Poet 中原 中也[Nakahara Chūya] what his favorite flower was, to which he replied "Peach blossom".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūya_Nakahara
Today, June 19, is the day of Dazai Osamu's birth and the anniversary of his suicidal corpse was found, 桜桃忌[Ōtōki].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Dazai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E7emJHLDkw
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