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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.

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  1. 白菊 shiragiku White chrysanthemum.
  2. 「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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Why this phrase

Obon, August 13th to 16th in most of Japan, turns the flower shelf at every supermarket and florist into grave-visit stock. The teachable is not the lazy version. Chrysanthemums are not banned in Japan and pink or orange ones turn up in ordinary gift bouquets all year. What flags a bundle is that it is sold as a matched PAIR, one for each vase at the grave, in a printed sleeve marked お供え用, and it is heavy on white and yellow. Learn 白菊 and the two-identical-bunches tell, leave those on the shelf, buy anything mixed instead.

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