#撫子 — Public Fediverse posts

2) NADESHIKO

Nadeshiko (撫子) are counted as a fall flower, but because they can bloom from as early as late spring, they're also known as 'everlasting summer' (常夏).
'Nade' (撫) means 'caress'...people considered the flowers so beautiful that you could not help but touch them.

#撫子 #pinks #autumn

2) NADESHIKO
Nadeshiko (撫子) are counted as a fall flower, but because they can bloom from as early as late spring, they're also known as 'everlasting summer' (常夏).
'Nade' (撫) means 'caress'...people considered the flowers so beautiful that you could not help but touch them.

Dianthus symbolize cheerfulness, innocence, constancy and feminine beauty. In Edo times the flower was used in New Year decorations that followed a year of natural disasters & misfortune.

#Japan #pinks #nadeshiko #撫子

2) NADESHIKO
Nadeshiko (撫子) are counted as a fall flower, but because they can bloom from as early as late spring, they're also known as 'everlasting summer' (常夏).

'Nade' (撫) means 'caress'...people considered the flowers so beautiful that you could not help but touch them.

Dianthus symbolize cheerfulness, innocence, constancy and feminine beauty. In Edo times the flower was used in New Year decorations that followed a year of natural disasters and misfortune.

#撫子 #dianthus #7FlowersofAutumn

Kyoto sweets inspired by dianthus flowers.

greeting the stars
of Tanabata
at my hut, pinks
星迎庵はなでしこさくのみぞ
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶).

In hanakotoba (花言葉), the 'language of flowers', the family of pinks (dianthus) represent cheerfulness, innocence, constancy in love, talent and pure love.
Poetically dianthus symbolize late summer.

#Kyoto #京都 #wagashi #和菓子 #Japan #石竹 #撫子 #dianthus #pinks