| ▲ | Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)(publicdomainreview.org) | ||||||||||||||||
| 30 points by prismatic 3 days ago | 4 comments | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sanufar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Big fan of the bottom right snowflake on this page: https://pdr-assets.b-cdn.net/collections/japanese-snowflake-... Transferring each snowflake by hand with tweezers is insane, what a feat | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kazinator 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It appears that the author of this work invented the word 雪華 (sekka); it originates in that book. Other than that, a snow crystal is just called ゆきの結晶 (yukinokesshō). | |||||||||||||||||
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