花

Buddhism

flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image

Proverb

just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth

flowers in a vase or lapel

Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus)

woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa); wavy bittercress

spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season

Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

'taru' adjective

blossoms falling in confusion

ornithophilous flower (i.e. pollinated by birds)

Order of the Chrysanthemum

garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus); Indian cress

fourth month of the lunar calendar

Chinese spiranthis (Spiranthes sinensis var. amoena)

ukebana; lotus-shaped support on a pedestal, lantern, pagoda finial, etc.

pollen-free Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

paper flower for a funeral

ikebana; Japanese art of flower arrangement

Polite

flower

Proverb

fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk

across-the-board (policy)

hot-springs mineral deposits (resembling flowers); flowers of sulphur; geyserite

cryptogamous plants

evanescent glory; passing prosperity

evanescent glory; passing prosperity

all-around policy; please-everyone policy