Hime-utsugi is a shrub of the hydrangea family widely distributed in Japan. Because of the beauty of its small silky-white flowers (about 2 cm in diameter) that bloom around the summer rainy season, this plant has long been popular as a material used for flower arrangement and an ornamental garden plant since ancient times.
The hime-utsugi has long been loved and cherished by Japanese people. For example, many Japanese poetries about the Hime-utsugi flowers are found in the Manyo-shu, Japan's oldest of traditional Japanese poems. The name "hime-utsugi" is not used in this anthology, but it is believed that the plants referred to as "utsugi" and "u-no-hana" (white-rabbit flower) may have been hime-utsugi.
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