Chrysanthemum sumi-e painting　- 菊 -

Chrysanthemum, wow... we call it ’Kiku’. Too long word to remember in English :) Anyway, the chrysanthemum recalls me of the funeral. At the funeral, the photo of the dead is displayed surrounded with lots of small yellow chrysanthemum. The word for ’kiiku’, chrysanthemum in Japan, was used for the name(both boys and girls ) until seventy or eighty year’s ago(the grand father age). There is a Kitano’s film called ’KIKU-jiro no Natsu’, the summer of KIKU-jiro. Jiro is often used for the second sun’