Setiap bangsa memiliki budaya yang beragam, demikian juga Jepang. Bangsa jepang memili banyak ke unikan dan mungkin dr keunikan itu menjadikan jepang sebagai negara yang maju. Kemarin kebetulan saya jalan-jalan di taman kota. Suasananya sejuk dan bersih,yang terletak di Tokyo. Sebuah taman yang cukup luas untuk ukuran kota tokyo. Taman ini di penuhi bunga sakura. Jalan yang panjang yang samping kiri dan kana penuh dengan sakura. Disana juga ada sebuah kebun binatang dan taman air mancur.
Jika kita ingin pergi ke ueno kita tinggal naik dari Tokyo eki naik yamanote line,dah pasti nyampe
di Ueno.

Hanami is the traditional Japanese custom of viewing blooming sakura, cherry blossoms. Japanese people gather under trees and bring sake and snacks to eat. When the wind blows the falling cherry blossoms, everyone goes “Ohhhh!”. People enjoy each others company, drink sake together and enjoy the amazing white blossoms.

Hanami is usually in end of March or the very beginning of April when sakura is fully blooming. In Hokkaido, sakura is blooming much later, so hanami season can be almost one month later there. In southern Japan sakura’s blossoms are fully blooming is more early. Typical locations to keep Hanami party in Tokyo area would be Ueno Park or Shinjuku Koen. However during best hanami time, these locations get very crowded.

Cherry blossom viewing during night time is called yozakura. During night time the beauty of sakura is altogether different kind of experience. The colour of sakura seems very different.

Hanami, or sometimes hanami matsuri (festival) has long tradition. Shikibu Murasaki’s Tale of Genji described similar kind of flower viewing. Hanami originally was used for announce the rice-planting season. Also there are lot of beliefs related to sakura trees. It is a symbol of purity, and spiritual energy, and sometimes a sign of gods mercy. Weddings are often kept in the time when sakura is blooming and petals of sakura are literally raining from the trees. There are plenty of haiku poems which describe hanami events.

It is often said that Hanami describes life itself as season of cherry blossom is so short and fleeting. Hanami is also a good symbol of aesthetical nature of Japanese mind.

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Ini video saat hanami di taman Ueno Tokyo

 Itsumo to onajiku tsuki ni kazaseba
Iro hanatsu fukou no hako �@
Itsumo to onaji hakanasa wo kakaete
Yami no majiru iki wo haku�@

Kazaranai kotoba de toiu no nareba
Hito wa naze ni umare ochishi he mukau

Tae manaku nagareteyuku toki no rasen no naka
Utsumuku boku no senaka ni kimi kara
Monougena demo tashikana nukumori no shizuku wa
Kokoro ni nijimi yuku yume

Sekai no owari ni nani wo motomeru
Dare mo minna kangaete wa
Marude hito no kono you ni egao de
Ureshisou ni kattateru

Zetsubou ni okasare kogoeta no wa
Mukashi [ai]�@to yobareteta honoodane

Kanashimi wo azana wareta unmei no muchisae
Tsunaida bokutachi no te wa iki sakezu
Ayauku kimekiau itoshisa no kakera wa
Mirai wo hiraki yuku kagi

Hi wa nobori shizunde
Sonna eien ni boku wa namida suru

Tae manaku nagareteyuku toki no rasen no naka
Utsumuku boku no senaka ni kimi kara
Monougena demo tashikana nukumori no shizuku wa
Kokoro ni nijimi yuku yume

Kono tenohira ni ima mo kimi no mamoru beki egao to
Bisoyaka ni tsumoru fuan ga arukeredo
Ayauku kimekiau itoshisa no kakera wa
Mirai wo hiraki yuku kagi