Mirror Flower, Water Moon

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Mirror Flower, Water Moon (simplified Chinese: 镜花水月; traditional Chinese: 鏡花水月; pinyin: Jìnghuā Shuǐyuè; Japanese: 鏡花水月, romanized: Kyōka Suigetsu, lit. 'literally "Mirror Flower, Water Moon"'), is an East Asian proverb/phrase, meaning something that can be seen but not touched, like a flower reflected in a mirror or the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is beautiful but unattainable dreams, a mirage.

This name references 鏡中的花，水裡的月, which is the shorter form of a Chinese idiom (or chéngyǔ), literally meaning a "flower seen in the mirror, moon on the water's surface".

See also[]

• Flowers of the Four Seasons
• Four Gentlemen
• Smoke and mirrors
• Three Friends of Winter
• Four Treasures of the Study