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 · lotus (hasu)
Kannon
The lotus rises through mud without being marked by it. Kannon, bodhisattva of compassion, stands on a lotus throne. The flower opens in the morning over still water; the seed pod inside is already an architecture.
- In season now
- lotus (hasu)
- Month
- July
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 7:23 AM