You can find dried osmanthus flowers in tea shops or online. Also known as agar agar, agar (kanten in Japanese) is made of red algae/seaweed found in Southeast Asia and is used primarily as a ...

There is a poem by the Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Wang Jian that includes this osmanthus, depicting an autumn night: “White is the courtyard where crows perch on the tree/ Cold dew in silence ...