シーラーズ (Shíráz) のサアディー (Sadí) 著 Gulistán (薔薇園) に現れた植物について
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The “Gulistan” or the Rose Garden of Sadi which was written in A. D. 1258 is one of the most celebrated books ever written in the Persian langnage. It is written in prose interspersed by a considerable number of verses of various forms.Sadi, one of the greatest and most celebrated of the Persian poets, was a unique moralist. As he was neither a zoologist nor botanist, the Flora and Fauna found in his noted work are mostly not treated technically, but metaphorically.I wrote an article on “The Beasts Found in the Gulistan” in 1952 and contributed it to the periodical of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and my present article on “The Plants Found in the Gulistan” has been written on the same principle.Besides the names of the parts of plants and grasses, there are only some fifty names of different kinds of trees, vegetables, cereals, nuts and fruits, which are divided into the following eight categories.(1) Shrubs and garden plants (9 kinds)(2) Flowering plants (4 kinds)(3) Plants and trees for medical uses (6 kinds)(4) Vegetables (7 kinds)(5) Fruits and fruit-trees (11 kinds)(6) Nuts (3 kinds)(7) Cereals (3 kinds)(8) Plants for industrial use (6 kinds)The verses containing the names of the plants, flowers, fruits, etc. have been collected under the above mentioned categories.The flowers found in the book are “gul” or rose, “láleh” or tulips, “sunbul” or hyacinths and “yásmin” or jasmines which almost all the Japanese think to be imported European plants. Out of the fifty names, “gul” is the most important one and is found thirty times and the words with “gul” as a component element appear eleven times. The “Gulistan” or Rose Garden, the title of the book, consists of “gul” and “istan” meaning “place abounding in…” The yellow roses which had been introduced into Austria from Western Asia are said to have been brought from Austria into England and Holland in the latter half of the sixteenth century. As for the tulips, their original home is Western and Middle Asia.Notwithstanding the conspicuous progress of the study of herds for medical use in the Islamic sphere, the plants for this purpose found in the book are quite few. As for cereals “jau” or barley appears eleven times, while “gandum” or wheat and “birinj” or rice are found only once respectively. Among the industrial plants “panbeh” or cotton and “ney” or reed are found two and six times respectively.
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