November 17th – November 21st is Winter – Ritto (Beginning of winter)-57th KOU “Daffodils bloom”
Daffodils begin to bloom as autumn deepens, and continue to bloom one after another as winter gives way to spring. So, I think the author of the 57th KOU was conveying his thoughts about the warm, yet still distant, spring in the line “Daffodils bloom.”
Of course, in Shinshu, daffodils are a spring flower.
Sorry to call them a replacement, but wild HONKINSENKA (Calendula arvensis) have begun to bloom on the banks of the rice fields and farms in this area. They’re completely different flowers to daffodils and are also known as “flowers that know no winter.” They continue to bloom throughout the winter and into spring. They make flowers even in being buried under snow.
As the colors of the season is going into more monotonous, these tiny yellow flowers become even more and more adorable.
