

So I've seen some say using lilies is very common for author to show that a
girl is lesbian for example.

However I've heard that the whole lilies= lesbian thing is not mainstream. So
I was wondering, how common is this trope used really outside of the yuri
genre


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How common is it to use the lily flower/yuri 百合 to represent girls love in japanese anime?


This is based on communications between Asian readers of light novel and
mangas

Lily is commonly used to represent purity, innocence, especially in Asian
religions. Lily in this case symbolizes tight and pure friendship between 2
females. They can be very close friends to the point of slightly flirtatious
or look almost like couples but not necessarily sexual. It's more on the
emotional bond rather than the sexual aspect that the West depicted it as.

It's not too common as a visual indicator but more as a genre/category of
anime/manga/light novel. It started with 'Rose Clan' as a term for gay
inclined readers of a magazine series so a writer start using 'Lily Clan' as a
female counterpart t

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**From history point of view:**

Among the first Japanese authors to produce works about love between women was
Nobuko Yoshiya,[9] a novelist active in the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.
Yoshiya was a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the early
twentieth century Class S genre.[22] These kinds of stories depict lesbian
attachments as emotionally intense yet platonic relationships, destined to be
curtailed by graduation from school, marriage, or death.

source: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)#cite_ref-yoshiya_21-1>


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