"Ogon Hime Tokudama is a dwarf yellow form of H. 'Tokudama' and is made up of several cultivars which form a group. A Western cultivar similar to this form is H. 'Little Aurora'."

Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled, A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term hime as small, mini, dwarf or princess and the term ogon or oogon as gold or yellow.