This non-registered cultivar is a sport of H. rectifolia from Japan. It is an upright growing, medium to large size hosta with green foliage that has creamy white marginal variegation. Purple flowers bloom from mid-August into September.

Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled, A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term shirofukurin or shiro fukurin as white-edge(d) or white-margin(ed) and the term tachi as upright, 'Tachi Gibōshi' or H. rectifolia.