The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten t The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel and Michael Zulli and more, with covers by Dave McKean. Beginning with issue #47, it was placed under the imprint Vertigo.
Ikebana comes from the word ikeru, a Japanese term that translates to âliving,â âarrange flowersâ or âkeep alive.â Flower in Japanese is hana. With the combination of these two terms, the translation could be âarranging flowersâ or âgiving life to flowers.â.
What you may not know is that the Japanese also use flowers to express their feelings, but many of the meanings differ from Victorian and western symbolism. The ancient art of Hanakotoba has been practiced for centuries and to a lesser extent continues today.