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Hanami: Japan's Cherry Blossom Tradition

Hanami is a Japanese tradition of enjoying the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms. It originated in the Nara period when emperors held parties under sakura trees and wrote poems about the ephemeral nature of the flowers. Today, hanami celebrations take place in March and April when people gather in parks in large numbers to hold feasts and drink sake beneath the flowering trees. At night, yozakura celebrations involve hanging lanterns in parks to view the cherry blossoms after dark. Hanami celebrations focus on appreciating the transient beauty of the flowers through food, drink, music, and social gatherings.

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Hanami: Japan's Cherry Blossom Tradition

Hanami is a Japanese tradition of enjoying the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms. It originated in the Nara period when emperors held parties under sakura trees and wrote poems about the ephemeral nature of the flowers. Today, hanami celebrations take place in March and April when people gather in parks in large numbers to hold feasts and drink sake beneath the flowering trees. At night, yozakura celebrations involve hanging lanterns in parks to view the cherry blossoms after dark. Hanami celebrations focus on appreciating the transient beauty of the flowers through food, drink, music, and social gatherings.

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HANAMI JAPANESE

CULTURE

Ingrid Correa
Jos Carlos Loyola
HANA
Flower
MI/ MIRU
See
Is the Japanese
traditional custom of
enjoying the
transient beauty of
flowers
In modern-day Japan, hanami mostly
consists of having an outdoor party
beneath the sakura tree( cherry blossoms)
during daytime or at night. Its celebrated
in March and April.
HISTORY
The custom is said to have started during the Nara Period (710794).




But by the Heian
Period (7941185),
sakura came to attract
more attention,
and hanami was
synonymous with
sakura.
Ume blossoms were what
people admired in the
beginning.
Emperor Saga adopted this practice, and held flower-viewing parties with sake and feasts
underneath the blossoming boughs of sakura trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. Poems would be
written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself, luminous and
beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.
The Japanese people
continue the tradition
of hanami gathering in
great numbers wherever
the flowering trees are
found. Thousands of
people fill the parks to hold
feasts under the flowering
trees
TODAY
In more than half of Japan, the cherry blossoming days come at the
same time of the beginning of school and work after vacation, and so
welcoming parties are often opened with hanami.
Usually, people go
to the parks to
keep the best
places to
celebrate hanami
with friends,
family, and
company
coworkers many
hours or even days
before.
In cities like Tokyo, it's also
common to have celebrations
under the sakura at
night. Hanami at night is
called YOZAKURA , literally
"night sakura". In many places
such as Ueno Park temporary
paper lanterns are hung to have
yozakura.
YORU= Night
SAKURA = Cherry Blossom
The hanami celebrations usually involve eating and drinking, and playing and
listening to music. Some special dishes are prepared and eaten at the occasion,
like dango and bento, and sake is commonly drunk as part of the festivity.

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