Language of flowers
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Floriography is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been
Color lithograph Langage des Fleurs (Language of Flowers) by Alphonse Mucha (1900)
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877)
Primavera, 1482, Sandro Botticelli
Ophelia, 1851–52, John Everett Millais
Hanakotoba
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Hanakotoba is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. Hanakotoba is much like the Victorian language of flowers, floriography, but with the associated symbolism specific to Japanese history and
Language of flowers
…work. Hajime Isayama frequently used various types of flowers for symbolism and foreshadowing in his manga series Attack on Titan, which also includes Hanakotoba (花言葉), the Japanese form of floriography. Flowers have long served as more than mere decorative elements in art, often carrying rich symbolic meanings…
Amaryllis belladonna
Anemone narcissifolia
Ambrosia
Aster tataricus