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The Yoshino cherry is typically observed since, from the late Edo period, it has been planted across the archipelago. [7] Sample trees also include the Higan cherry in the south and Prunus sargentii (Sargent's cherry) in the north. [7] In 2006 it was reported that the cherry blossoms might overtake the plum blossoms before reaching Hokkaidō. [8]
Hanami picnics in front of Himeji Castle, 2005 Osaka Castle. Hanami (花見, "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers; flowers (花, hana) in this case almost always refer to those of the cherry (桜, sakura) or, less frequently, plum (梅, ume) trees. [1]
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Nagoya Matsuri (名古屋祭, Nagoya Festival) is held in mid-October in the central Hisaya Ōdori Park in Sakae. The highlight of the festival is the procession of the Three Heroes of Nagoya: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The characters come along with their soldiers clad in armour and carrying weapons and banners.
Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," [2] has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The festival, held to coincide with the typical blooming period, lasts for ten days and features events for people of all ages.
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
Here are Jack White’s 2025 tour dates: FEBRUARY 2025 6 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY 7-8 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn ...
Cherry tree in bloom in Yachounomori Garden, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, April 2009 The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Sakura usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1]: 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms).