Every Flower Shop in Japan Is Buried in These This Week. Buy a Bundle for Your Host and You Just Gave Them Grave Flowers.
To say white chrysanthemum in Japanese, say 白菊 (shiragiku).
Every flower shop in Japan is buried in these right now, they are cheap and they are beautiful, and if you hand a bundle to your host you have just given them grave flowers.
白菊
shiragiku
white chrysanthemum
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- 白菊 shiragiku White chrysanthemum.
- 「白菊」 is the white chrysanthemum, and around Obon, August 13th to 16th in most of Japan, it takes over the flower shelf. Those bundles are headed for family graves. 「白菊」 is the white chrysanthemum, and around Obon, August 13th to 16th in most of Japan, it takes over the flower shelf. Those bundles are headed for family graves.
- Here's the tell. They're sold in twos, one for each side of the grave, in a printed sleeve marked 「お供え用」. Two identical bunches, heavy on white and yellow. Here's the tell. They're sold in twos, one for each side of the grave, in a printed sleeve marked 「お供え用」. Two identical bunches, heavy on white and yellow.
- 白菊は、お墓に供える花です。 shiragiku wa, o-haka ni sonaeru hana desu. White chrysanthemums are flowers you offer at a grave.
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