Real and Netsuke Watermelon スイカ - 本物と根付

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Do you know what this yellow flower is?

What do you think this flower is? 何の花でしょう？

The answer is in the photo below.

It's watermelon! スイカの花！

I didn't know what it was when taking these pictures, just thinking that it must have been a member of the cucumber family. I realized at home that this was watermelon when finding a so small and so hairy baby watermelon!!

I haven't had watermelon this summer yet, and if you haven't yet either, look at the watermelon below I saw at Tokyo National Museum this February. It's a watermelon netsuke with makie lacquer painting, created by Kinuyo Hariya, a Japanese netsuke carver and makie painter.

 

3cm tall netsuke watermelon

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写真を撮っているときは何の花か分からず、ただ「毛深い花だな」と思ってました。でも家で写真をよく見たら、何とちっちゃいスイカが！！

そういえば最近めっきりスイカを食べなくなりました。というわけで以前、東京国立博物館で見た、本物そっくりのスイカの蒔絵根付をご覧ください。根付作家かつ蒔絵作家である針谷絹代氏の作品です。

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