It is a spring time!
Most Japanese love "Hanami". Hanami means viewing and enjoy the beauty of flowers, but we usually say it as viewing cherry blossoms in springs. People gather with friends and co-workers to enjoy food and drinks under the trees, even at night (Yozakura). Some parks put small lamps that illuminate cherry blossoms.
"Hamani" seemed to start about 1,200 years ago in imperial court, and then became popular in the Edo period. The cherry blossom is at their best only for two weeks, poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life of Samurai, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.
We have the cherry-blossom forecast to inform when the cherry blossoms will come out everyday. Since Japan is slender island from north to south, the forecast starts usually from the middle of March to the end of April.
However, the time of cherry blossom seems to come gradually early every year. .
The cherry-blossom front has already arrived at Iwate today, but it is kind of too early for Iwate; we usually hear the news of cherry blossoms at the end of April.It must be because of the global warming... It is over 20°C today.
It is so nice to have early cherry party and shorter winter, still it is not good.
Am I strange to care about global warming while enjoying early cherry blossoms?
I do not want the earth to have a life like cherry trees. No way.
Most Japanese love "Hanami". Hanami means viewing and enjoy the beauty of flowers, but we usually say it as viewing cherry blossoms in springs. People gather with friends and co-workers to enjoy food and drinks under the trees, even at night (Yozakura). Some parks put small lamps that illuminate cherry blossoms.
"Hamani" seemed to start about 1,200 years ago in imperial court, and then became popular in the Edo period. The cherry blossom is at their best only for two weeks, poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life of Samurai, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.
We have the cherry-blossom forecast to inform when the cherry blossoms will come out everyday. Since Japan is slender island from north to south, the forecast starts usually from the middle of March to the end of April.
However, the time of cherry blossom seems to come gradually early every year. .
The cherry-blossom front has already arrived at Iwate today, but it is kind of too early for Iwate; we usually hear the news of cherry blossoms at the end of April.It must be because of the global warming... It is over 20°C today.
It is so nice to have early cherry party and shorter winter, still it is not good.
Am I strange to care about global warming while enjoying early cherry blossoms?
I do not want the earth to have a life like cherry trees. No way.
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In Hokkaido sakura don't bloom until after golden week. ;)
ReplyDeleteThis year?
ReplyDeleteI hope Hokkaido follows regular schedule:)