A Quote by Janet Frame
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.
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The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.
We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.
The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms.
What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.
Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.
Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.
If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring.
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!
Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
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