Yes! Bless This Family. We Got A Christmas Miracle! He Was Able To Come Home A Few Days. Thank You Jesus!

Yes! Bless this family. We got a Christmas🎄 miracle! He was able to come home a few days. Thank you jesus! Best Christmas Gift!

Made some edits before i make a sesskagu fan art. Loving it!

Favors someone ssshhhh🤫🤫

😊😊 im proud!

"wE OnLy ShiP wItH aDuLt RiN"

Oh really now. How gross!

Yeah that’s just gross

🥰🥰🥰 yoooooo

Ooooo Interesting!!!

Flower Language Time Again~

So, with the Episode 8 Preview providing us with this image:

And with the flowers in it looking so similar to, and reminding many of, Kagura’s death scene in a field of flowers:

I decided to do some research into what flower this might be (for both Setsuna’s scene here and Kagura’s). What I found provided some interesting results!

I think that the flower is a white Japanese anemone. They are a flower that is related to the buttercup family, which is fascinating, since the flower often associated with Rin in the Inuyasha Exhibition goods has been a Japanese buttercup. Also, another name for anemone is “windflower.” This “refers to the fact that it grows where the wind blows openly.” 

And here are some symbolic meanings of the flower:

While in Japanese the while anemone flower symbolizes:

or “truth/sincerity,” “expectation/anticipation,” and “hope, wish, and aspiration.”

The meaning of the flower being connected to things like “the death of a loved one,” “fragility of life,” and etc. all fit with Kagura’s death. But there some other interesting names, meanings, and origins to this flower and its name.

While most of the myth doesn’t really fit Kagura and Sesshomaru, there are aspects of the myth that do stand out now with Yashahime in the mix and the introduction of Kirinmaru and the Four Perils.

Basically, in the myth, Aphrodite fell in love with a handsome young man named Adonis. But her other lover was Ares (God of War) and she warned Adonis about him, stating that her lover could turn into a wild beast. At one point Adonis is injured by a wild boar. And the anemone was create d from the tears of Aphrodite mixing with the blood of Adonis as she held him in her arms. As we know, Kirinmaru is referred to as The King of Beasts and one of the Four Perils is a Boar Demon:

Those aspects could definitely be coincidence. Though, after this most recent episode (Episode 7), in which Riku definitely seems to be linking the apple he ate with the Biblical/Western association of apples with sin…who knows. We already have some Buddhist elements mixed in with that Biblical element/reference, so some Greek/Roman mythology too…why not, lol!

But more interestingly than that is the fact that the anemone in Greek means this:

The Daughter of the Wind.

I also found this meaning/symbolism for the flower as well:

“A new beginning and anticipation as the flower closes its petals at night and blossom again in the morning.” 

Those last two meanings are the ones that I think could connect to Setsuna. That and the fact that Setsuna displays wind based powers and attacks, which would connect her to the alternative name of anemone - “windflower,” just like Kagura.

As always, please feel free to add on! :D

Sources of the information on anemone - origin, mythology, meaning, and flower language:

hanakotoba(dot)com

morflora(dot)com

flower-meanings(dot)com

Pictures/Images are from:

Episode 7 - From the Preview Section for Episode 8 - Setsuna

The Inuyasha Exhibition Twitter / Goods Website - SessKagu Acrylic Stand

The Yashahime official site - Toukotsu (A Four Great Peril - Boar Demon)