Fuku-wa-uchi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.254, colour photo and description: Medium size, faint pink ground with a peppering and small splashes of red and pink, open, cup-shaped, semi-double, with 2 rows of rounded, emarginate petals and a short, central stamen cylinder, with white stamens, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms early to late. Leaves dark green, broad-ovate, apices blunt acute, mar­gins serrulate. Originated in the Chūbu area, Japan. In early spring, February 6th, during "Set­subun Festival", to welcome the first day of spring and send out the last day of winter, children scatter beans to scare away the devil of winter and cry "Fuki-wa-uchi" and "Oni-wa-uchi", meaning "Come in lucky" & "Go away devils". Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.222 with colour photo; English translation p.155. A cross between Shūfūraku and Kotobuki. Named and released by Minoru Satō in 1986.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.254　 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.222. 【花】桃地に濃紅色の縦絞り〜吹掛 け絞リの入る一重、筒咲き、大輪、10 〜4月。【葉】広楕円、大形、平坦。 【樹】立性、生育が早い。【来歴】秋 風楽と寿の交配種。1986年に佐藤稔 の命名•発表。写•文/佐藤。