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grass

On-Yomi: ソウ — Kun-Yomi: くさ、くさ-、-ぐさ

Elements:

grass, flowers, sunflower, early, sun, day, ten, needle

Heisig story:

Perhaps you know the custom of seeding grass randomly or in some particular pattern with the flower called the crocus, which blooms for a few days each year in early spring. As the grass begins to turn green again after winter has passed, these tiny flowers dot up here and there. Now just look out your window at a patch of grass somewhere and think what a nice idea it would be to have your name spelled out in flowers once as a sort of early harbinger of spring.

Koohii stories:

1) [dicedice] 22-7-2007(266): Grass grows in earlier than flowers.

2) [Katsuo] 1-6-2008(46): This grass is very long. The only flowers you can see are sunflowers – the rest are hidden by the grass.

3) [sethimayne] 9-10-2007(35): My Dad always made me cut the grass early in the morning - it sucked.

4) [kanjihito] 5-6-2011(26): Grass grows early, before the flowers which eventually grow above.

5) [vertigo959] 25-3-2009(18): My Dad said "Cut the grass early, and watch out for the FLOWERS!!!". ソウ 草履。くさ .

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