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plant

On-Yomi: ショク — Kun-Yomi: う.える、う.わる

Elements:

plant, tree, wood, straightaway, ten, needle, eye, fishhook

Heisig story:

You have no doubt seen how people practicing the Japanese art of bonsai take those helpless little saplings and twist them into crippled dwarves before they have a chance to grow up as they should. The more proper way to plant a young tree and give it a fair shake in life is to set it into the earth in such a way that it can grow up straight.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 18-8-2007(273): Plants don't become trees straightaway.

2) [liosama] 28-6-2008(109): When you plant plants, you use a piece of WOOD to make the plant grow STRAIGHT.

3) [sutebun] 10-9-2007(33): If you get a new tree it is of course best to go plant it straightaway. Without planting it straightaway the roots won't have enough time to be healthy and strong like the tree needs.

4) [JohninJapan] 9-1-2007(19): PLANT a TREE with tottoro and it might start growing STRAIGHTAWAY. (see tonari no tottoro :D).

5) [kuraujiokun] 10-7-2009(11): To plant: act of putting that small tree straight into the ground.

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