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peach tree

On-Yomi: トウ — Kun-Yomi: もも

Elements:

peach tree, tree, wood, portent, turtle

Heisig story:

To associate the peach tree with the primitive for a portent, recall the famous Japanese legend of Momotarō, the Peach Boy. It begins once upon a time with a fisherman and his wife who wanted badly to have a child, but none was born to them. Then one day the old man caught a giant peach, out of which jumped a healthy young lad whom they named Peach Boy. Though the boy was destined to perform heroic deeds, his birth also portended great misfortune (how else could he become a hero?). Thus the tree that is associated with a portent of coming evil comes to be the peach tree.

Koohii stories:

1) [dwhitman] 5-10-2007(92): The pits of a peach tree look like turtles.

2) [JetSetArnett] 11-3-2008(80): King Koopa consistently captures Princess Peach. Eventually he's going to run out of castles and just set her in a tree.

3) [DrJones] 18-12-2007(56): If you gave the meaning "a person's back" to the primitive in portent (#235 兆), you can easily discover that a peach tree is the tree with butt-shaped fruits.

4) [jettyke] 16-9-2009(47): If you used the story about hairy woman´s legs for portent, then: PEACH TREE is the TREE that has HAIRY fruits.

5) [sutebun] 11-9-2007(26): It's a little known fact, but when the ninja turtles were young Splinter actually made them follow rigid diet. Those turtles actually ate nothing but peaches. In fact, the turtles even planted a peach tree in their hideout not only to decorate the place with a tree, but because they were eating nothing but peaches.

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