{"id":8070,"date":"2015-03-04T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2015-03-06T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:25:14","slug":"8070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-things\/8070\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose is a rose is a rose, II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVarious rose water bottles on display beside the olive oils at a shop in Tokyo.
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Meant the above for the Japanese blog… It reads “Rose water distilled by steam process; Like those aristocratic Europeans, add to wine for noble flavoring and sublime scent; add to milk, tea … and also add to your pastry baking.” It is a customary ingredient in Baklava as I learned from Middle Eastern cooking teacher. Here’s more ideas<\/a> for you.
\nAromatherapy related store called “Aroma Bloom” – love, love, love.
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\nNice diffuser – still don’t think I will carry it back in a suitcase…but for only about $45 and made with wood… cannot be found in US I don’t think. Was torn but gave up.
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\nCan you guess the name of this rose ?
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\nSo surprised …
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\nIt’s called “Samurai”!
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\nReally? Had no idea there is a variety of rose named Samurai. Samurai translates to Warrior so seemingly so\u3000in-congruent … Apparently I have become Americanized – last time, names of red roses were I remember distinctively, “Darcy” and “All for Love” – then, this time, red rose is called Samurai? What happened? I did a double take but noone else seems to think it’s odd…Just me, the Americanized going ? Was reminded that Samurai wasn’t all about bloody battles or fighting … but their code was about honor, loyalty and respect for life because they knew it’s so fleeting:<\/p>\n

In Japan, flowers and flower-giving are not exclusively for women. As you might have known, the samurai is an aesthete. He treasures flowers and take them as a part of life as a warrior. This concept is different radically from what Western people think about flowers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– from Hanakotoba = Japanese Flowers & Their Meaning<\/p>\n

There’s always a single stem flower in a vase, changed every couple of days with information on where the flower was grown and the name of that flower shown. Lovely touch that warms your heart and lifts the spirit.<\/p>\n

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\n“Pink” Cymbidium
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\n“Lemon Heart” Cymbidium
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\ngrown in Shiga-prefecture, this one is from Sugimoto Rose Garden…
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\nback to a single rose splashed in peachy creme color named “Juliet”…
\nNext post, will cover the benefits of rose water and rose oil as I was asked after class. To be honest, it’s probably not my favorite kind of flower … the thorns, the thorns…but cannot deny that the scents are sublime. AND there’s medicinal value to some so will share later on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various rose water bottles on display beside the olive oils at a shop in Tokyo. Meant the above for the Japanese blog… It reads “Rose water distilled by steam process; Like those aristocratic Europeans, add to wine for noble flavoring and sublime scent; add to milk, tea … and also add to your pastry baking.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}