1.   Songbirds chirp in a nearby pine tree and a bouquet of red and pink cloth flowers defies the scorching midday sun.

2.   The visitors this time are all men, wearing their turbans and vests and bringing a bouquet of cloth flowers for the new cabinet member.

3.   Katsushika Concert Hall was packed with women in colorful kimonos of elaborate floral designs, their hair fixed with painstakingly arranged pins and cloth flowers.

4.   When the mother of one Iraqi journalist died last year, he and his relatives put cloth flowers on her coffin.