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 · chrysanthemum (kiku)
the emperor's chrysanthemum
Kiku is the imperial seal of Japan, sixteen petals around a center. The Chrysanthemum Festival, Chōyō no Sekku, is the ninth day of the ninth month. To drink kiku-wine then is to ask the year for a long calm.
- In season now
- chrysanthemum (kiku)
- Month
- October
- Drawn
- Fri, Oct 16, 9:26 AM