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The title 5 Centimeters per Second comes from the speed at which cherry blossom petals fall, with petals being a metaphorical representation of humans, reminiscent of the slowness of life and how people often start together but slowly drift into their separate ways. [5]
A cherry blossom painted on the side of a bomber symbolized the intensity and ephemerality of life; [48] in this way, falling cherry petals came to represent the sacrifice of youth in suicide missions to honor the emperor. [40] [49] The first kamikaze unit had a subunit called Yamazakura, or wild cherry blossom. [49]
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink.
"cherry blossom" or "sakura" will show a pink flower, which when clicked will show petals falling down. [citation needed] "Clara Rockmore" or just "rockmore" shows Clara Rockmore in the knowledge graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating her 105th birthday.
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]
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, [1] is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower.
Full flowering: at least 50% of flowers open, first petals falling 67: Flowers fading: majority of petals fallen 69: End of flowering: all petals fallen Principal growth stage 7: Development of fruit 71: Ovary growing; fruit fall after flowering 72: Green ovary surrounded by dying sepal crown, sepals beginning to fall 73: Second fruit fall 75
In 2003, Ōta Jun'ya composed "Sakura, Sakura ~ Japanize Dream" as part of the credits theme for the video game Perfect Cherry Blossom. [15] Dream of the Cherry Blossoms by Keiko Abe, a virtuoso percussionist, is a five-minute piece for marimba that is based on "Sakura Sakura" that has become popular in the marimba repertoire. [citation needed]