Hanami(花見) Festival In Japan🇯🇵 | Sakura 🌸(桜)
Japan’s Cherry Blossoms Festival
This is that beautiful time of the year in Japan when people throng the cherry blossoms(Sakura 🌸桜) hotspots to observe these elegant-looking pink flowers. The blooming of cherry blossom trees characterizes the beginning of the spring season. During the spring season, you’ll see Japanese people thronging the parks to have picnics under the loveliness of blossoming cherry trees. The beautiful pink flowering petals of the cherry tree slowly blow away along with the light breeze of the wind creating a transcendental ethereal effect gracing the surrounding area with its loveliness. The Hanami cherry blossoms season has been compared to the transcience and fragility of life. It’s a reminder that life is beautiful yet tragically fleeting. In the quotidian hustles of life we often time forget to enjoy the little things, death is inevitable which is why it is pivotal to cherish every moment of your life’s ephemeral existence.
ORIGINS OF HANAMI 花見 FESTIVAL IN JAPAN
The celebration of the Hanami(Hana花 — flowers, Miru見る — View) festival in Japan is a centuries-old tradition. The word Sakura 🌸桜 first appeared in the Nara period(710–794) and is contained in Japan’s oldest existing collection of poetry, the Manyoshu. ‘Sa’ was a word written as a…
