Ko-no Hana
She is the Japanese Blossom Princess
("child-flower"), the symbol of delicate
earthly life. She makes the flowers blossom. She is the daughter of the
mountain god Oho-Yama, and is the wife of Ninigi. She met him on the
seashore and they fell in love. Ninigi asked Oho-Yama for his daughter's
hand, but the mountain god proposed that he should marry his elder
daughter Iha-Naga ("princess live-long") instead. Ninigi choose
Ko-no-Hana and the lived happily together and had three sons, including
Hoderi and Hoori. Their marriage, however, was not a happy one. Because of her
husbands
unreasonable jealousy Ko-no-Hana retired to a hut in the woods. The hut
she later set on fire and she perished in the flames.