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Crane among blossoms
petals that fall on white snow
too early to bear fruit.

~Asahina Rei of the Kakita school

Sent as gentle rebuff to one of her many suitors, implying that while she is flattered by the recipients attentions, she considers herself (or, possibly, the suitor) too young and green to allow a relationship to develop. The white snow serves not only as a metaphor for a cold reception or an out-of-season courtship, but as an allusion to the Crane clan tradition of dying one's hair white, a tradition that Rei, as a daughter to a Daidoji samurai, would observe the entirety of her adult life.

(excerpt from On the Wings of the Crane; Essential Rokugani Court Poetry of the 4th and 5th Centuries by Elsebet du Weise; retired Rokugani ambassador.)

AN: in which zab abuses the cherry blossom paintbrush in manga studio, and then goes on to abuse several other flower brushes to make the patterns on the kimono. In my defense, the grass-blade brush was not used, each little lawn tuft was hand done dammit.

another character portrait of my lo5r character, Asahina Rei, being her ornamental self in an ornamental garden. In our world's japan, one would not wear a giant obi bow like that over hakama, but in fantasy!asia i do what i want

Description
Crane among blossoms
petals that fall on white snow
too early to bear fruit.

~Asahina Rei of the Kakita school

Sent as gentle rebuff to one of her many suitors, implying that while she is flattered by the recipients attentions, she considers herself (or, possibly, the suitor) too young and green to allow a relationship to develop. The white snow serves not only as a metaphor for a cold reception or an out-of-season courtship, but as an allusion to the Crane clan tradition of dying one's hair white, a tradition that Rei, as a daughter to a Daidoji samurai, would observe the entirety of her adult life.

(excerpt from On the Wings of the Crane; Essential Rokugani Court Poetry of the 4th and 5th Centuries by Elsebet du Weise; retired Rokugani ambassador.)

AN: in which zab abuses the cherry blossom paintbrush in manga studio, and then goes on to abuse several other flower brushes to make the patterns on the kimono. In my defense, the grass-blade brush was not used, each little lawn tuft was hand done dammit.

another character portrait of my lo5r character, Asahina Rei, being her ornamental self in an ornamental garden. In our world's japan, one would not wear a giant obi bow like that over hakama, but in fantasy!asia i do what i want