A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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chihu, or " Bamboo of Kwannon " ; and several
different plants are known, in different provinces,
by the name Kwannon-so, or " Herb of Kwan-
non." The name of Fugen (Samantabhadra)
has been given to a variety of cherry-tree, — the
Fugen-^akura, or " Fugen's cherry-tree." The
name of Dai-Mokukenren (Mahamaudgalytyana),
— shortened by popular usage into Mokuren, —
figures both in the common appellation of the
Ficus pumila, known as Mokuren, and in that of
the Magnolia conspicua, usually called Haku-
mokuren, or " White-Mokuren." The name of
Brahma, — known to Japanese Buddhism as Bon-
ten, — appears in the designation of a kind of
upland rice, Bonten-mai. The memory of Bo-
dai-Daruma (Bodhidharma) is preserved in the
popular appellation of the Aster spatufolium,
called Daruma-gihu, or " Daruma's chrysanthemum,"
— as well as in the name of the swampcabbage,
Daruma-so, or " Daruma's plant." Two
fishes also have been named after this patriarch
the Priacanthus Niphonius, which is called Da-
ruma-dai, or " Daruma's sea-bream " ; and the
Synanceia erosa, popularly known as Daruma-
kasago, — "kasago" being properly the name
of the fish scientifically called sebastes inermis.
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