Meaning
朝顔 (あさがお, asagao) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “morning glory”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
紫の朝顔が咲きました。
Purple morning glories have bloomed.
私は朝顔を観察します。
I watch morning glories.
庭に朝顔の種をまいた.
I planted the morning glory seeds in the garden.
朝顔の種が大きくなってきた。
The seeds of the morning-glory flower got bigger.
窓の上に朝顔をはわせてある.
Some morning glories are trained up over the window.
また朝顔の斎院との関係を持つ。
He also has a relationship with Asagao no Saiin (Priestess of Morning Glory).
朝顔の花は昼になるとすぼまってしまう.
The flower of a morning glory withers around noon.
朝顔がムクゲ（槿）の古称でもあることから、まれに「槿（あさがお）」と表記されることがある。
Since asagao is also an old name for mukuge, it is rarely written as 槿 (asagao).
名前は、源氏からアサガオの花を添えた和歌を贈られたという「帚木」や「朝顔」の逸話からきており、そこから「朝顔の姫君」「朝顔の斎院」「槿姫君」「槿斎院」などの呼び名がある。
Her name comes from the episodes in "Hahakigi" and "Asagao" in which Genji sent her a waka poem accompanied by a morning glory flower, giving rise to names such as "Princess Asagao," "Asagao no Saiin," "Princess Mukuge," and "Mukuge Saiin."