Higanbana Tee

彼岸花 is higanbana. Higan is the week around the autumn equinox, when people in Japan visit their dead, and the word itself means the far shore, the other side. The flower blooms for that week and no longer.

It comes up on a bare stalk with no leaves at all. The leaves arrive after the flower has died, so the two never see each other; there is an old name for it that means exactly that. It grows along the edges of rice fields and around graves, where the bulbs were planted because they are poisonous and keep animals away. Its other names are less gentle: 死人花, the corpse flower, and 幽霊花, the ghost flower.

Garment
100% combed ring-spun cotton.
Fabric weight 4.3 oz/yd² (145.8 g/m²), 32 singles.
Pre-shrunk jersey. Form-fitting cut.
Blank garment sourced from Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, or Cambodia.