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Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.
Language of flowers. Floriography ( language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Viola mandshurica is a perennial species of violet known by the common names dōng běi jǐn cài ( zh:东北堇菜) meaning 'northeastern violet' in China, jebikkot ( ko:제비꽃) meaning 'sparrow flower' in Korea, and sumire ( ja:菫, ja:スミレ) meaning 'violet' in Japan. [1] In Japan, V. mandshurica is considered to be the basic species ...
Roses Are Red. "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [2]
Violets for Your Furs. "Violets for Your Furs" is a 1941 song written by Matt Dennis with words by Tom Adair, [1] and first recorded in that year by Tommy Dorsey 's orchestra with vocals by Frank Sinatra . The song describes the wearing of violets with furs on an evening in Manhattan . Note: A friend's father told her that he wrote the song ...
A violet in the meadow stood, with humble brow, demure and good, it was the sweetest violet. There came along a shepherdess with youthful step and happiness, who sang, who sang along the way this song. Oh! thought the violet, how I pine for nature's beauty to be mine, if only for a moment. for then my love might notice me and on her bosom ...
The flower is the national flower of Iran since the Achaemenid Empire era (552 BC). Darius the great holds a water lily In Persepolis Israel The poppy anemone, Israel's national flower. The national flower of Israel is the poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria; calanit metzuya in Hebrew), chosen in 2013 to replace Cyclamen persicum. Japan