http://noeminonihon.canalblog.com/ has already made excellent grades on flowering cherry trees in Japan ...
For non-English speakers, let me repeat ...
The cherry blossoms are not only a national symbol (even rugby players have small pink flowers sewn on the shirt, hinhinhin), but in addition carry a whole aesthetic, a range of values and concepts specific to Japanese society. The big idea is the following very poetic but very sad that things are ephemeral, and are even more beautiful for that reason. The beauty of cherry blossoms peaked during the minute preceding the time of his death. The flowers mature, a bright pink, in fact preparing to drop out and disappear ...
This aesthetic is at once the wealth and weakness of the Japanese culture (but this is just my opinion).
the same way as we vacillates between Christmas evening holy hell and commercial Hanami vacillates between spiritual celebration and debauchery of heavy alcohol and laziness ... The Japanese "do" hanami, ie they arise under a tree, take pictures of flowers for five minutes (and in passing I say bravo, because they are still the same flowers each year and you still have the entire population of the archipelago which is the same press as the first cherry bud disappearance until the last petal. Imagine the photo album: "Cherry Blossom 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 etc ... etc.. "), then go to picnic and drink, drink, BOIIIIIIIRE for heuuures with their friends.
I fun but as usual debauchery at the Japanese remains a quiet, gently festive and full of serenity and laughter (I compare to a thirty-one-foot from December to the Eiffel Tower: Japanese are angels, ladies and gentlemen.)
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