Articles of category "Cherry blossoms"

Sakura is a name for a cherry blossom in the Japanese language. It is an unofficial national flower of Japan and, perhaps, the most beloved flower among the Japanese. Cherry blossoms are often depicted in art and are associated with samurai and kamikaze. There are folk and popular songs, entitled "sakura", and sakura is often represented on various kinds of consumer goods, including kimono, dishware and stationary. The cherry blossoms are symbols of a promising future and the Japanese associate them with purity, melancholy and transience.

Japanese love and comprehension of the nature is fascinating. The fascination and almost the intrigue start with such arts as bonsai and ikebana and, perhaps, do not end with the Japanese garden design and plants. Japanese skillfully interfere with the nature, though you will never notice any distortion; they create miniature copies of a huge natural oasis, but you will never say that these are human creations; their imagination has no boarders and it will never stop its development.