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clan

On-Yomi: ハン

Koohii stories:

1) [raulir] 4-1-2007(165): This character refers to feudal clans that were abolished in 1871 (Meiji 4) in favor of prefectures ( 廃藩置県 ), and thus were predecessors of the modern prefectures. As we know from 落 , flowers and water drops each have their own way of falling. This character says that clans' location was decided in the way flowers, water drops and dice fall: at random. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28country_subdivision%29.

2) [Matthew] 17-3-2009(132): In the particular clan depicted by this character, each member has to take his or her turn watering the flowers.

3) [dwhitman] 20-2-2008(83): Each member of the clan has to take his turn at watering the flowers. The order they do it in is decided by a roll of the dice. (tweaked Matthew's story).

4) [laxxy] 30-10-2006(27): This yakuza clan controls the "flower" trade, the 'water business' ( 水商 ) and the dice gambling.

5) [erikkusan] 5-4-2006(19): This is what members of Ku Klux Clan is doing when not meeting: pretending to live normal life by watering flowers during the day and playing dice-games with their families at night. What a double-life.

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