Small Purple Butterfly And Silk Flowers Earrings

The Tsubaki collection by Lebole Gioielli consists of asymmetrical earrings made of Japanese kimono silk that tell us the legend of Susanno, god of wind and rain, forced to live in the kingdom dominated by an evil eight-headed snake. Every year the snake demanded the sacrifice of the most beautiful young woman in the kingdom but one day Susanoo, tired of that life of abuse, decided to free the country from the monster and went to the kingdom of the underworld where he created a sword in which he imprisoned a ray of Sun. When he returned, he went with his sword near the cave inhabited by the monster to wait for him, while a long procession accompanied the princess, "Rice Field", to sacrifice herself for the people.

At dawn the monster appeared from the depths of his cave and, after several hours of fighting, Susanoo got the better of the snake.

The God approached the princess and asking her to marry placed the bloody sword on the grass which began to turn red. From those traces of blood, a shrub with very shiny leaves and white flowers with red spots was born. The flowers were called tsubaki, or roses of Japan, and their characteristic was not to lose the petals but to fall whole from the plant.

The camellias, the protagonists of our collection from that moment, in Japanese culture represented the expectation and eternal love.