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wistaria

Noun

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A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

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Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware. Yasunari Kawabata

Splendid Things Chinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long flowering branches of beautifully coloured wistaria entwined about a pine tree. Sei Shōnagon

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