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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]
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia, every spring. 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.
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).
Here are 30 places to see cherry blossoms in the US, from an Ohio college campus and a botanical garden in Dallas and a quiet suburb outside of Washington, D.C.
Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, a spring celebration; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA ; International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA; Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of celebrating the beauty of flowers ...
The Cherry Blossom Festival extends through April but special events are focused on Sakura Weekend, April 13-14. Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival offers jolly Japanese time in Philadelphia's ...
The cherry blossom front between Kyushu and Kanto, 2007. The cherry blossom front (桜前線, sakura zensen) is the advance of the cherry blossoms across Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency records the opening and full bloom of the blossoms from Kyūshū in late March to Hokkaidō in the middle of May.
The painting shows a hanami cherry blossom–viewing party in the Yoshiwara pleasure district in Edo. [19] 45 figures appear in it. [23] The scene is a teahouse, though one of a more exaggerated grandeur than a real one. [19] A sign of spring, sakura cherry-blossom petals fall all around, [9] and azaleas bloom in the bottom right. [10]