Cherry Blossom Japan Flower Garden

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Cherry blossom japan flower garden. Cherry blossoms also known as sakura in japan are the small delicate pink flowers produced by cherry blossom trees. It is popular amongst the buddhist belief of impermanence and the beauty of life before it ends. Cherry blossoms garden japan photography tokyo travel this gallery contains 13 photos. The great allure of the flower is the short blooming period it has.

The name of this flower garden comes from the fact that the flowers are planted in a a rice field tanbo in japanese before it is being used to grow rice. From then on in tanka and haiku flowers meant sakura. Hanami is the centuries old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. It is the second time for me to visit to rikugien garden of tokyo during the blooming weeping cherry blossom.

But by the heian period 794 1185 sakura came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura. Here a wide variety of flowers such as dimorphotheca sinuata nemophila snapdragons daisies poppies and rodgersia podophylla blossom in the 52 000m2 rice field. The springtime bloom is a lavish spectacle but remarkably brief. The custom is said to have started during the nara period 710 794 when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning.

Over the next month the cherry blossom blooms will move northward through japan according to japan guide. Apr 10 2020 explore alice c s board flower garden on pinterest. Cherry blossom season in japanese culture cherry blossom trees are popular around the world. A fallen cherry blossom flower also has emotional connections in the minds of japanese.

The earliest you can see sakura cherry blossom would be in late january. They are widely distributed especially in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere including japan taiwan korea mainland china nepal india pakistan afghanistan iran myanmar thailand europe. There are many varieties of the flower that have been introduced into japan. A cherry blossom is a flower of many trees of genus prunus the most well known species is the japanese cherry prunus serrulata which is commonly called sakura 桜 or 櫻.

Kamikaze pilots used this flower as a symbol of their missions. It represented the sacrifice that a young japanese made for his country. The cherry blossoms are predicted to reach sapporo in the very north of the country by.