Quilt Notes: JAPANESE FLOWER is illustrated in Rhoda Oscher Goldberg's' QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, 1988. A variation titled JAPANESE POPPY, according to Barbara Brackman, was first published by Nancy Cabot (Loretta Leitner Rising) in the Chicago Tribune in the 1930's (see ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS, 1993) Online browse other quilt sites with JAPANESE FLOWER / JAPANESE POPPY illustrations and templates.
by Ono no Komachi (9th c.)
# 9 in the Hyaku-nin Isshu
translation by F. V. Dickins, 1866
A JAPANESE FLOWER
(faded after long rains)
Flower's tints have faded;
alas! that I advance
in years in this world
is a circumstance
which causes men to glance at me.
JAPANESE FLOWER creates a secondary 12-sided dodecagon in the tiling pattern. Here are more examples at this site of blocks with secondary circular designs, created by straight-edge polygons:
JAPANESE FLOWER