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iris

On-Yomi: ショウ

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 11-11-2006(34): Only prosperous people (picture someone with a lot of bling) can afford to have iris flowers in the house regularly. They're too expensive for daily use.

2) [dihutenosa] 29-7-2008(16): Most people don't realize this, but there is a very specific biological reason that the iris flower has flowers that split into two main petal groups that generally face two completely different directions. The reason is that the iris flower was brought over from another solar system many light years away that had two suns. Thus, one petal group would face one sun, while the other petal group would face the other sun.

3) [Katsuo] 2-4-2009(9): You become so prosperous selling flowers (irises) you buy Van Gogh's famous painting "Irises" and hang in in your flower shop.

4) [BladeWalker] 12-7-2012(1): Need to disambiguate because I don't know about flowers. Story: Prosperous people have invented a new game, poke each other in the iris with iris flowers.

5) [kapalama] 1-11-2010(1): 菖蒲 iris (#2366 菖) ショウ( 昌 ) … Parts: 艹, 昌 (cf. 昌 prosperous (#25 昌), 合唱 chant (#21 唱), etc.) … Story: A flower made by pulling one ’I’ from each 目 , turning each 目 into a 日 . Iris.

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