Hanami お花見
April 25th 2011
To me, as a Japanese, it is the tradition to enjoy the beauty of Cherry blossom every year. Cherry blossom is often used as a metaphor for “woman’s beauty”…in other words, the beautiful time is very short. Cherry blossom always reminds me of the poem by Fumiko Hayashi.
| Life of flower is short Women’s life is only lots of pain |
花の命は短くて苦しきことのみ多かりき
It was 1940′s. Nowadays, the life of flower (woman) is longer and we can bloom anytime we want regardless of age!
Yesterday, I took my Ken to do his Karate training in the Japanese Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY. http://www.bbg.org/discover/cherries/
