a flower / Short for 生け花 (ikebana): flower arrangement / Short for 花札 (hanafuda): Japanese playing cards / the best days of one's life / the best thing / essence

flower / beauty / red-light district

flower / red-light district

Synonym of 梅の花 (ume no hana, “plum blossoms”) / Synonym of 菊の花 (kiku no hana, “chrysanthemum flowers”) / Synonym of 桜の花 (sakura no hana, “cherry blossoms”) / (colloquial) an imperial prince

garden

花虻: hoverfly

hoverfly

to fly about

Synonym of オレガノ (“oregano”)

(idiomatic): "dango instead of flowers", substance over form → indicating a preference for the practical over the purely aesthetic, preferring dango (which are tasty and nutritious) rather than flowers (which are merely decorative)