Walking along the road, Suikazura caught my eyes in the hedge of a certain house. White and yellow flowers are blooming. When I was a kid, I played a hide-and-seek and found Suikazura. While picking flowers and sucking sweet honey, I forgot completely about the hide-and-seek and even that a few demons had changed. SuiKazura is a name that comes from the fact that it narrowly survived in the cold winter. It is also called “Gold-Silver Flower” because of its gradual change in flower color from white to yellow. They said that Tokugawa Ieyasu also used to drink the Suikazura wine with wishing the longevity.

道を歩いていると、とあるお家の生垣に忍冬が絡まり、白と黄色の花を咲かせています。子どもの頃、隠れん坊をしていて忍冬を見つけ、花を摘まんで甘い蜜を吸っている内、隠れん坊のことを忘れ、鬼が何人も変わっていたことを思い出しました。寒い冬も枯れず、さすがに萎れそうになることもある、そんな姿から付いた名です。花色が白から黄色へと徐々に変化する姿に着目して「金銀花」とも呼ばれます。不老長寿の「忍冬酒」は徳川家康も愛飲していたそうです。