I wasn't able to enjoy flowering dogwood much this year but instead found this Japanese dogwood tree (Cornus kousa), which was so gorgeous, especially from under the tree (3rd photo). I thought at first that the tree was a flowering dogwood because the bracts are not pointed, which is a key difference between flowering and Japanese dogwoods, but I found on the internet that Japanese dogwood trees can have rounded bracts, so I determined that it was a Japanese dogwood tree.
Japanese dogwood is called "yama boushi" in Japanese, which translates to "Buddhist monk" by comparing the head (or capitulum) of the flower to the head of a monk of the Hieizan (Mt. Hiei) Enryakuji temple and the four bracts surrounding the capitulum to his hood.
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今年はハナミズキを楽しむ機会がなかったのですが、その代わりに、このヤマボウシ（山法師）の木を見つけました。下から見ると圧巻です（3枚目）。花（総苞）が尖ってないので最初ハナミズキかとも思ったのですが、ヤマボウシも丸い総苞を付けるようです。
ヤマボウシの名前は、中央の球形の頭状花序を僧侶（山法師）の頭に、それより下の部分から出ている４枚の白色の総苞片を頭巾に見立て、比叡山延暦寺の「山法師」になぞらえたことに由来しています。
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