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In the present day, ornamental cherry blossom trees are distributed and cultivated worldwide. [1] While flowering cherry trees were historically present in Europe, North America, and China, [2] the practice of cultivating ornamental cherry trees was centered in Japan, [3] and many of the cultivars planted worldwide, such as that of Prunus × yedoensis, [4] [5] have been developed from Japanese ...
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 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 ...
Cherry blossoms mean big business for Japan: each year, an estimated 63 million local and international tourists travel to and across the country to witness this candyfloss spectacle, spending $2 ...
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.
Jean-Patrick Courtois, mayor of Mâcon, France, visited the festival in 2013 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the two sister city's relationship. [16] [17] Japan has a long history with the Macon Cherry Blossom Festival. At the first annual festival, representatives from Kurobe, Macon's sister city, visited the festival. After that year ...
The Matsuyama Shiroyama Koen Cherry Blossom Festival is held every year in early April in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The Matsuyama Castle is lit up with paper lanterns at night until 9 PM. People eat home-cooked meals or take-out food under the cherry blossom tree, combined with drinking sake, talking and singing songs.
Japan is gifting the United States 250 new cherry trees, Prime Minister Kishida and President Biden announced during a state visit at the White House. Japan gifts 250 new cherry trees to D.C ...