On the other hand, author Lin Yi-te, in his 1995 novel Takasago Lily 1947, contrasts the Japanese emperor Hirohito's "elegance of a chrysanthemum flower in the wind" with a Formosa lily that symbolizes the primitive simplicity of Taiwan's indigenous peoples. Here, the Formosa lily represents the desolation and tragedy of the aboriginal peoples 'decline.
作家林熠德的《一九四七高砂百合》，則以日本裕仁天皇「以菊花臨風般高雅的姿態」，對照象徵台灣原住民原始素樸的台灣百合，此時的台灣百合，又蘊含了原住民族群逐漸衰微的蒼涼與悲傷。