View Single Post
Old 07-15-2010, 05:22 PM   #107 (permalink)
Ugetsu
Super Moderator
 
Ugetsu's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,512
Default
Besides the meaning "nine-fold" Kokonoe is also a beautiful flower, a type of Bougainvillea. Numbers seem to relate to flowers -- look up the kanji for "Yuri" which means "lily" (and girl-girl manga). The first character is Hyaku- one hundred 百合. Search Google Images for this:

九重葛
Ugetsu is offline   Reply With Quote