Nagbabasa Sweet Blue Flowers

Sweet Blue Flowers

· @manga_collector· Shimura Takako (志村貴子)

Kabanata 1

9. ...... 165> 11. ¹ The name of a well-known short story collection (Japanese title: Hana Monogatari) by Yoshiya Nobuko, a lesbian novelist. Written in the early 20th century. 12. ² English translation of the Japanese title for Hermann Hesse's Gertrud. 13. ³ English translation of the Japanese title of a poem by Heinrich Heine. 14. ⁴ English translation of the Japanese title for Hermann Hesse's Schön ist die Jugend. 15. This manga's Japanese title, Aoi Hana ("(The) Blue Flower"), is also the Japanese title of Novalis's unfinished work Heinrich von Ofterdingen, whose central image, a blue flower, later became a symbol of longing among Romantics. Novalis's life inspired an English novel by the title The Blue Flower, written by Penelope Fitzgerald. For more information on the symbolism of the Blue Flower, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flower