hana-kotoba (again)

While looking for something else at the library, I found a reference book that listed some traditional Japanese flower symbolism in the context of myths and legends-- photocopied some pages and also jotted some extra notes down. May need to do some extra Googling to track down all of the Linnean names and check the transliterations; some of them had a rather archaic look which may arise either from the source material or a different transliteration system. ( Read more... )