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 · bellflower (kikyō)
Abe no Seimei
Five-pointed kikyō was the crest of Abe no Seimei, greatest onmyōji of the Heian court. The flower forms a pentagram of its own, the seimei star. A bellflower in the garden keeps spirits at the polite distance.
- In season now
- bellflower (kikyō)
- Month
- July
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 5:36 AM