Please visit us at: http://botanyboy.org/ Each spring there is a cherry blossom celebration in Japan known as hanami, meaning “flower viewing”. This season is both beloved, and short lived - no sooner do the cherry trees come into full flower than the first petals begin to fall. Rain and wind accelerate this process, stripped trees of their blossoms in just a day or two. The effect of standing under a tree in full flower on a windy day can be startlingly magical, what the people here call sakura fubuki, a “cherry blossom blizzard.” It is at once a wonderful and saddening experience. And yet, the ephemeral nature of the flower yields its most deeply symbolic meaning - the beauty of existence juxtaposed with the mortality of life - a truly Japanese sentiment.

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Finding Movement by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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