Cherry blossoms bloom early at a town in Shizuoka
While the Cherry Blossom Festival has already begun back in February 10, most of the trees in Japan have yet to actually bloom. All save for 8,000 or so trees in Kawazu, Shizuoka.
While the Cherry Blossom Festival has already begun back in February 10, most of the trees in Japan have yet to actually bloom. All save for 8,000 or so trees in Kawazu, Shizuoka.
The blossoms are out, in an explosion of pink, a drab day transformed.
Plum trees bloom at Kairakuen, regarded as one of Japan’s three finest gardens, on the first day of a plum festival in Mito on Saturday. Visitors saw about 3,000 trees that were halfway to full bloom — harbingers of an early spring. According to the park’s information center, many of the flowers will be at full bloom from late this month to early March, though the festival continues until the end of March.
I thought the cherry blossoms wouldn’t wait for me, but thank God they did. They had begun to bloom a week before I left on this trip, and my heart was a bit saddened at the thought that I would not be able to see them in all their glory. But there they were, waiting.
It’s been said that the kouyou phenomenon, or the turning of the autumn leaves in Japan, inspires people to write beautiful poems and prose. It can even make amateur photographers produce photos like pros.
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