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Macon is known as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World, because 300,000 sakura trees grow there. [29] In Brooklyn, New York, the Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in May, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. [30] This festivity has been celebrated since 1981, and is one of the Garden's most famous attractions.
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 ...
Each spring, a month-long cherry blossom viewing festival called Hanami is held at the Cherry Esplanade. [ 391 ] [ 392 ] This culminates in a weekend celebration called Sakura Matsuri , which was first hosted in the 1980s, [ 392 ] [ 393 ] although this event has not been held since the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 391 ]
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).
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 surrounding Hirosaki Park around the castle grounds is one of Japan's most famous cherry blossom spots. Over a million people enjoy the park's 2600 trees (which were originally planted around in grounds in 1903) during the sakura matsuri (cherry blossom festival) when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, usually during the Japanese Golden Week ...
Japanese festivals, or matsuri (Japanese: 祭り), are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.The origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings to the kami", and ...
Omote-yama (表山), the festival float of Hitachi Furyumono. The Hitachi Furyumono (日立風流物) is a parade in Hitachi city, Japan. [1] It is held during Hitachi Sakura Matsuri (日立さくらまつり), the annual cherry blossom festival in April, and the Great Festival at the local Kamine Shrine [] once in every seven years in May.