Seasonal Festival: Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
April 21, 2015Latest newsletter - Seasonal Festival: The incarnation of mountain god: Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Delivery Of Japan's Seasonal Tradition [Issue 51] April 20, 2015
Here is a Japanese poem "tanka" compiled in Japan's oldest anthology
"Manyoushuu" at No.829 in chapter 5, composed by Kusushi Choushino
Hukushi.
"Umeno hana Sakite chirinaba Sakurabana Tsugite sakubeku Narinite
arazuya"
Interpretation: As soon as plum blossom blooms and falls, cherry
blossom blooms like they are filling the next turn.
Translation: Hitomi Kochi, reviewed by Chan Yee Ting
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