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 · kudzu (kuzu)
the autumn winds
Kuzu is one of the seven autumn flowers of the Man'yōshō. Its purple racemes are smaller than wisteria's, hung from a vine that climbs everything. The root makes medicine; the leaves wrap rice. The plant that gives more than it takes.
- In season now
- kudzu (kuzu)
- Month
- September
- Drawn
- Wed, Sep 2, 12:09 PM