Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

I can only provide you the English. While I understand a lot of Japanese because I’m taking classes, the print is too fuzzy and the language is kind of ancient in the episode, so the translation is all I can give you. So…

Ep 1: I came to a spring field to gather young pine, but lost my way amidst a flurry of cherry blossoms.

Ep 2: Can even the thunderous howls of the gods who walk the fields of heaven separate two in love?

Ep 3: A heart that longs for someone unwittingly resigns all traces of self-control.

Ep 4: I long for her to stay and yet she leaves. Oh cherry blossoms! Fill the air so much that she cannot find her way home.

Ep 5: Let us dye our clothes the color of cherry blossoms as a memento to wear after the blossoms fall.

Ep 6: The lotus petals appear to be unsullied, deceiving all with its jewels of dew.

Ep 7: The wind blew the cherry blossom petals beyond the horizon, leaving ripples in the sky and my heart.

Ep 8: I’m going to throw a rock at the birds trampling flowers in my garden. They probably come here as there are no flowers in the field.

Ep 9: In the end, life is as fleeting as morning dew.

Ep 10: Spring is when flowers bloom and chance encounters occur.

Ep 11: When all has become dark and we have lost sight of each other forever, let us allow the people of the world to decide what is a dream and what is reality.

Ep 12: My body is dust, floating in the wind. I have no way of knowing where it will go.

Ep 13: — (sorry no translation for this one, I squinted to try to read the Japanese, but all I got was something about praying, flowers, and time)

Ep 14: this one didn’t have a translation either! All I could make out was something about becoming…

Ep 15: What should I use to envelop my happiness? I should have said, “Sew sleeves more full than usual for my Chinese robe.”

Ep 16: Cherry blossom trees in the tall grass meadow, if you have any pity for my sorrow, bloom the color of ink this year.

Ep 17: A summer night, I thought it still twilight. Dawn came too soon. Where did the moon take its refuge without my noticing? Not behind the mountains, but in the clouds somewhere.

Ep 18: Like the cherry blossoms drifting over the mountain, no matter how much I look at you, I never see enough.

Ep 19: Like water running down a tall mountain, even in secret, we must continue our love. Though my yearning may be the death of me.

Ep 20: The moon that crosses the sky tonight cleans everything in its path; so that even if the clouds endeavor to conceal it, its light will shine on.

Ep 21: –no translation, something about summer insects–

Ep 22:–no translation, something about body, thoughts, and heart–

Ep 23: I prayed I wouldn’t fall in love as I cleansed my hands at the sacred fountain. Alas, judging from my state now, God must not be listening.

Ep 24: If exchanging my life meant I could be with you, death would be so easy.

Ep 25: Even in this life, if it goes as the heart desires…Why should parting be so sorrowful?

Ep 26: My love is without direction and without end; who knows where it will take me. Only this I can be sure; all I ask for is to be with you.

GardenersCardiff answers:

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” – Angelina Jolie

“I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.” – Rita Rudner

“I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.” – Elle Macpherson

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” – Martha Graham

“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.” – George Balanchine

“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.” – George Balanchine

“The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.” – Isadora Duncan

GardenersCardiff answers:

“An old man in love is like a flower in winter” – Portuguese Proverb

“If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.”” – Jack Handy

“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble” – Voltaire

“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!” – Drew Barrymore

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.” – Oscar Wilde

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same” – Helen Keller

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” – Winnie the Pooh

“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.” – Swedish Proverb

“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.” – Buddha