Plants · four traditions
In bloom now
Flowers as small kami, hanakotoba, the language of flowers, plus the spirits who tend each species through the rainy season and the snow.
Reading the sky over Las Vegas, set yours below
Japanese · spider lily (higanbana)
the threshold kami
Higanbana means 'higan flower', bloomed exactly at the autumn equinox along graves and the borders of rice fields. To touch one is to put your hand briefly into the other world. Beautiful, poison, never crossed.
- In season now
- spider lily (higanbana)
- Month
- September
- Drawn
- Tue, Sep 1, 6:34 AM