🍀LUCKY LEAVES✨
Three types of leaves, thanks to their symbolism, play an important role at this time of year.
👑🍃daimyo oak or Japanese emperor oak (柏 'kashiwa)
🎋🍃bamboo (笹の葉 'sasa-no-yō')
⚔️🍃iris (菖蒲 'ayame' or 'shōbu')
Preparing bamboo leaves to wrap around chimaki cakes.
An opened kashiwa mochi sweet (the rice cake revealed under the leaf).
Nao-san enjoys the irises at Ota Pond.
A beautiful green and purple domyoji sweet featuring a branded iris flower.
