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Fanakatumi

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It is not known exactly what the flower Fanakatumi was and so the translation of ‘iris’ is only speculative.

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Man’yō Botanical Gardens

There are 37 botanical gardens throughout Japan devoted to displaying the plants and poetry of the Man’yōshū, of which 27 are open to the public. In July 2016, I visited ten of these for research purposes, in various parts of Japan’s main island, Honshu, and one of its others, Shikoku. Read More about “Man’yō Botanical Gardens”…

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