押(お)し花(ばな)

おしばな
noun
pressed flower; pressed-flower craft
leisureplant-flower
1. pressed flower; flower-pressing craft
Flowers or leaves dried flat under weight, used for cards, framed art, and craft. Also the craft of making them — a popular hobby for children and a long-standing decorative art.
押(お)し花(ばな)を作(つく)った。
I made pressed flowers.
本(ほん)の間(あいだ)に挟(はさ)んで押(お)し花(ばな)にした。
I pressed it between the pages of a book to make a pressed flower.
祖母(そぼ)は押(お)し花(ばな)で作(つく)ったしおりを大切(たいせつ)に保管(ほかん)していた。
My grandmother carefully kept the bookmark she had made from pressed flowers.

押(お)し (pressing) + 花(はな) (flower); the second element voices to ばな in the compound. A classic summer-vacation craft project for elementary school children.

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Similar words

  • ドライフラワー: dried flowers — air-dried, three-dimensional, not pressed flat
  • 標本(ひょうほん): specimen — a more scientific term, for plants preserved for study

Related Words

Compare: 標本(ひょうほん) (specimen)
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Added 2026.6.6 11:07 · Revised 2026.9.2 13:02
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