About Ohanami (flower viewing)

Let me teach about Ohanami(flower viewing)!!

 

Look this!!

There are many people!!

This festival is called "hanami" in Japan!!:)

 

 

 

Let me explain about "hanami":)

 

Hanami ( "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers,

 "flower" in this case almost always meaning

 cherry blossoms ("sakura") or (less often) plum blossoms ("ume").

 From the end of March to early May, sakura bloom all over Japan,

and around the first of February on the island of Okinawa.

The blossom forecast (sakura-zensen, literally cherry blossom front) is announced each year

 by the weather bureau, and is watched carefully by those planning hanami

 as the blossoms only last a week or two.

 In modern-day Japan, hanami mostly consists of having an outdoor party beneath

 the sakura during daytime or at night.

 In some contexts the Sino-Japanese term kan'ō (view-cherry) is used instead,

particularly for festivals. Hanami at night is called yozakura (literally night sakura).

In many places such as Ueno Park temporary paper lanterns are hung for the purpose of yozakura.

 On the island of Okinawa, decorative electric lanterns are hung in the trees for evening enjoyment,

 such as on the trees ascending Mt. Yae, near Motobu Town, or at the Nakijin Castle.

A more ancient form of hanami also exists in Japan,

which is enjoying the plum blossoms ( ume) instead,

 which is narrowly referred to as umemi (plum-viewing).

This kind of hanami is popular among older people,

 because they are more calm than the sakura parties,

 which usually involve younger people and can sometimes be very crowded and noisy.

 

It's really beautiful event!!

And we can see beautiful cherry blossoms!!<3

 

Now in Japan is winnter!!

Also this year is snowing a lot!!

Before I came to NZ(about a week ago from I left Japan),

it snowed a lot!!:)

It is unusual...:(

So I think that this year's "hanami"season will be late than before!!

 

 When cherryblossoms were came out,

everyone say that spring came!!:)

It will be warmer and warmer!!

It's good news for us!!