Japanese star anise music 🌿 On Miyajima, high above the Seto Inland Sea, we recorded the… — @plantwave

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@plantwave's TikTok video "Japanese star anise music 🌿 On Miyajima, high above the Seto Inland Sea, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a shikimi, the Japanese star anise. First, the warning. This is not the star anise in your kitchen. That one is Chinese. This one is its poisonous cousin, close enough in looks that people have been hurt confusing the two. Nobody should eat it. What Japan does with it instead is offer it. For centuries shikimi branches have been placed on Buddhist altars and on graves, the plant you bring to the dead. Sakaki goes to the shrine, shikimi goes to the temple. And here it is growing wild on the mountain itself. Kūkai is said to have lit a flame up here in the year 806, and it has never been allowed to go out. In 1964 fire from it was carried across the bay to help light the Peace Flame in Hiroshima. So we clipped onto the offering plant, on the mountain with the fire, and let it play. #shikimi #japanesestaranise #japan #plantmusic #naturesounds" has 11,518 views, 833 likes, 20 comments, 63 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 7.95% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted over two weeks ago and runs 30 seconds. It has been saved 96 times.

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It was posted on 2026-09-23, over two weeks ago.

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