In Japan, the blossoming of the sakura
begins in April, when students go back to school or people go back to
work after the holidays. Japan’s national weather service even tracks
the movement of the “sakura front,” which is an imaginary line that
travels south-to-north every season and heralds the blooming of the
sakura. This line’s progression in Japan is marked on this convenient sakura calendar.
The cherry blossom is tied to the
ancient Japanese tradition of hanami, or picnicking under a sakura tree.
The fact that the cherry blossom has heavily featured in ancient
Japanese art has made it a staple of both historical and modern Japanese
aesthetic. Although it is also native to China and Korea, it is
generally associated primarily with Japanese culture, which is why it
often accompanies the Japanese diaspora into cities around the world.
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