Talk:MEIKA Hime & Mikoto/@comment-119.74.120.225-20200214115159

Sort of bumped into a let's play vid who the uploader has actually bothered to explain the background of the Meika-z as plum flower spirits, it is actually based in the legend of an existing sacred white plum tree in Fukuoka 飛梅（とびうめ） (romaji: tobiume, lit "fly(ing) plum (plant/flower/tree)"), according to the plum motif included in their design, and the Hakata, Northen Kyushu dialects included in their voice pack.

Explainations starts at 3:30 in the vid in NND (Japanese) https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36329947

Wiki page (Once again in Japanese) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%9B%E6%A2%85

Very very rough translation:

Nobleman Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真（すがわら の みちざね, A.D.845-903) has exiled to rule a faraway province which is nowaday Kyushu Province in Japan, after a defeat in a political fight. Before he left Kyoto, the capital at that time, he went bid farewell to the 3 plants in the garden he treasured, the sakura(cherry tree), the ume(plum tree) and the matsu(pine). The sakura was so saddened that it wilt on spot, the ume and matsu flew from the gardens to chase Sugawara. Somehow the matsu only get to reach Hyoko (province), but the ume sucessfully get to (plant itself?) where Sugawara is working. Thus after it is revered as a sacred tree in the area.

Sugawara no Michizane wiki (finally english): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugawara_no_Michizane TL;DR : Hime and Mikoto is over a thousand years old according to background legend