Cherry Blossom Japan Flower Garden

Over the next month the cherry blossom blooms will move northward through japan according to japan guide.

Cherry blossom japan flower garden. The custom is said to have started during the nara period 710 794 when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning. It is popular amongst the buddhist belief of impermanence and the beauty of life before it ends. It is the second time for me to visit to rikugien garden of tokyo during the blooming weeping cherry blossom. The springtime bloom is a lavish spectacle but remarkably brief.

There are many varieties of the flower that have been introduced into japan. A cherry blossom is a flower of many trees of genus prunus the most well known species is the japanese cherry prunus serrulata which is commonly called sakura 桜 or 櫻. Hanami is the centuries old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. Cherry blossom season in japanese culture cherry blossom trees are popular around the world.

It represented the sacrifice that a young japanese made for his country. Here a wide variety of flowers such as dimorphotheca sinuata nemophila snapdragons daisies poppies and rodgersia podophylla blossom in the 52 000m2 rice field. The earliest you can see sakura cherry blossom would be in late january. Cherry blossoms garden japan photography tokyo travel this gallery contains 13 photos.

After only two weeks they drop to the ground and wither falling like snow with the ebb and flow of the winds. They are widely distributed especially in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere including japan taiwan korea mainland china nepal india pakistan afghanistan iran myanmar thailand europe. The name of this flower garden comes from the fact that the flowers are planted in a a rice field tanbo in japanese before it is being used to grow rice. See more ideas about flower garden cherry blossom japan beautiful flowers.

Cherry blossoms also known as sakura in japan are the small delicate pink flowers produced by cherry blossom trees. A fallen cherry blossom flower also has emotional connections in the minds of japanese. Kamikaze pilots used this flower as a symbol of their missions. But by the heian period 794 1185 sakura came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura.

The cherry blossoms are predicted to reach sapporo in the very north of the country by. The great allure of the flower is the short blooming period it has. They seem to be most significant in japan where they symbolize a kind of lifestyle and amount to a religious event with popular celebrations and hope for the future.