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Hanakotoba/Language of Flowers:

Takasugi - Chinese lantern flower(鬼灯)

  • deception( ごまかし )(Western and Japanese meaning)

Hozuki plants are a popular Obon (Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the dead) decoration because they represent lamps. It’s also a custom to bring this flower to the family grave.

Katsura Kotarou & Tokugawa Shige Shige - Morning Glory (朝顔)

  • strong ties (固い絆)(Japanese meaning)

The Morning Glory’s vines grow rather quickly and firmly attaches itself to a support pillar to enable itself to grow further.

Tokugawa Soyo - Sunflower (ひまわり)

  • adoration (Western meaning)
  • My eyes are only for you (Japanese meaning)

Young sunflowers show behavior wherein the sunflower head track the Sun across the sky (heliotropism); however, as time goes by, when the flowers grow mature, it will face east, the direction of the rising sun.

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