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Hana

This is an actual flower as it exists and it nicknamed the flower of death as it often used as a forecast in Anime to show something bad about to happen or it just a reference of sadness or loneliness.

It is the Lycoris Radiata, Red Spider Lily, Cluster Amaryllis – ‘The Flower Of Dead’, that can be seen flowering at the time of year that signals that the Autumn equinox is only days away and that we have almost completed yet another yearly cycle of seasons.

This beautiful flower originally came from China but only the female variety made it to Japan so missing its male half the plant cannot reproduce via pollen transfer as most other flowers do.

Poisonous indeed as the bulbs contain toxic alkaloids that if ingested cause paralysis of the central nervous system and ultimately death. For this reason, they were often, in cremation times, planted in graveyards to prevent wild animals from devouring the corpses.

The stalks, however, contain some edible proteins and so it was often planted on the narrow paths between the rice paddies to be used as emergency food if the rice harvests were poor.

The flower has many names here in Japan, some say as many as 900:-

“Manjushage”　曼珠沙華　is taken from a line in the Buddhist Lotus Sutra, referring to a red flower

“higan-bana” 彼岸花、flower of the autumn equinox

“shibito-bana” 死人花, the flower of the dead

“Jigoku-bana” 地獄花、flower of hell

There many names to choose from but as 4 rings close to death, it is used here.

The number 4 is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death".

In Japanese mythology, it is the flower that grows along the banks of the river that one must cross after death or the flower that grows in hell.

There are many haiku written about this flower where it is often associated with loneliness and death.

There even a white one. Which is called a Lycoris albiflora, a natural hybrid.

Once again, it a myth, it might be real or it might be a lie.

Sometimes myths take comfort in stories.