#檜扇 — Public Fediverse posts

🌬️🎎HIŌGI🍵🌻

In another small nod to the Gion Matsuri, we place hiōgi (檜扇) in the tokonoma.
As the plant's thick, flat leaves grow in a splayed formation, from the Heian period it became known as 'hiōgi' (檜扇), meaning a formal folding fan made from hinoki wood.
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Itotatsu's (いと達) beautiful 'nubatama' (ぬばたま) are named after the jet-black seeds of the hiōgi (檜扇 'blackberry lily').

Thanks to the seeds, 'nuba' (ぬば) came to be used to describe pitch black or dark things.

The seeds were commonly used in poems to describe black hair etc...

until dawn
I will wait for you
and not sleep
even if the frost
covers my pitch-black hair
居明かして君をば待たむぬばたまの　
我が黒髪に霜は降るとも
-Iwa-no-hime (磐姫皇后 d.347), consort of Emperor Nintoku.

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