Significance of Beauty
 

Cherry blossoms are so beautiful. From what I understand, Japan is full of cherry blossom trees. I know the culture involves them a lot. I was wondering what the significance of cherry blossoms is in Japan? It seems to be something of great meaning. :)

They say the blood of a man will make the Sakura beautiful you know.

I have never heard that, what does it mean? :)

From what I gather, it means that something beautiful can be the product of something terrible.

ango sakaguchi's novel in the woods beneath cherry blossoms in full bloom, sakura made people go mad. also in the past sakuras were not viewed as anything so special.

Cherry blossoms are what let us know spring has come. That astonishing beauty starts from southern area of Japan since spring arrives in south earlier. And we start noticing spring has come and we celebrate that. We'll have parties under Cherry trees.

Cherry blossom is a symbol of transiency. It is beautiful because it lasts only few days.

The symbol of samurai brave spirit.

Umm where did you hear this crap? You think war and violence is symbolically what Japan thinks about when they have ohanami each year? Another youth sadly misguided by weird anime intellect... (translated into English of course).

I think we have autumn leaves in England. One of them I know we have as well.

Not sure were this ones going as UK also has cherry blossom tree's

THIS.

Sakura weren`t always THE tree - they`re mentioned pretty rarely in the early poetry and literature.
I think that somewhere along the line how quickly they fell after blooming came to emphasize their beauty - much in the way fireworks are beautiful because they`re only there for an instant before fading.

When it comes to blood though... 血染め紅葉 FTW. :mtongue:

The cherry blossom trees in Washington DC were a gift from Japan, and they're still a highlight every single year when they bloom. I think the beauty (especially because it's fleeting) is largely the reason for the attention paid to these trees.

Cherry blossoms are so beautiful. ---> i love it so much, too!!!! *_* :rheart: they flower as well in germany, soon. =)