MORNING GLORY Harmonizing with the summer, the morning glory risks its life to bloom in the summer morning. The morning glory is at its best in the early morning, but, it is in low spirits when the sun is high. Eagerly anticipating the summer morning, it blooms and with its whole being expresses the freshness of the morning.
Most summer plants are large. Many are somewhat rough and large-scale. For example, the sunflower or the watermelon, and so on. But the morning glory feels kind of fleeting. Because it seems to us to be short-lived, it seems to have a delicate air about it. Its color is not loud. It blooms, and then as if resenting the arrival of morning, soon withers away.
In Japaneses, morning glory is called asagao (morning face).
I think that “glory of the morning” expresses quite well the feeling that the flower gives to the morning but it is also good in Japanese. Before the dawn the face of the morning glory comes up, and summer wouldn’t be the same without it. With the vivid green of its twining vine, it is certainly one of the pleasures of summer mornings.