The seasonal phrase for this time of the year is this, 竹笋生, which means bamboo shoots grow. You don’t necessarily go to a bamboo forest to find bamboo shoots. You can find them in the backyards of houses or near the plow-fields in rural areas at times. I remember digging out bamboo shoots and eating them at relative’s houses when I was a child. Uncared bamboo shoots never tasted good, though.
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この時期の七十二候の名称は、『竹笋生』つまり竹の子が生えてくる、のようです。筍は竹林でなくても、田舎の家の裏庭や畑の端の方でも生えていて、子どもの頃には親戚の家などで、掘り出して食べた思い出があります。放ったらかしの筍なんか美味しくはありませんでしたが。
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