{"id":4751,"date":"2019-07-10T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2019-07-10T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:28:55","slug":"ko-no-hana-and-ki-no-hana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/curiosities\/ko-no-hana-and-ki-no-hana\/","title":{"rendered":"KO-NO-HANA AND KI-NO-HANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> How do Ko-no-hana<\/span>\u6728\u82b1<span lang=\"EN-US\"> and Ko-no-hana<\/span>\u5144\u82b1<span lang=\"EN-US\"> differ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Meishu-Sama:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"> In terms of flowers, \u201cKi\u201d-no-hana<\/span>\u6728\u82b1<span lang=\"EN-US\"> means cherry blossoms, and \u201cAni\u201d-no-hana<\/span>\u5144\u82b1<span lang=\"EN-US\"> are plum blossoms. Both represent Kannon, but \u201cKi\u201d-no-hana is the Kannon of the Buddhist world and \u201cAni\u201d-no-hana is the Kannon of the divine world. The plum blooms first in the spring, so they are the ani, the elder brother. In common Japanese conversation, referring to \u201cflowers\u201d usually means \u201ccherry blossoms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Record of Enlightening Talks, Issue 1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">December 8, 1948<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jinsai.org%2Fen%2Fteachings%2Fcuriosities%2Fko-no-hana-and-ki-no-hana%2F&#038;width=450&#038;layout=standard&#038;action=like&#038;size=small&#038;show_faces=true&#038;share=true&#038;height=80&#038;appId=171964893011161\" width=\"450\" height=\"80\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\" http:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/teachings\/curiosities\/ko-no-hana-and-ki-no-hana\/\u201d data-width=\"\" data-numposts=\"100\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0&appId=171964893011161&autoLogAppEvents=1';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How do Ko-no-hana\u6728\u82b1 and Ko-no-hana\u5144\u82b1 differ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-curiosities","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jinsai.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}