Description Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryu and kyoka about a major theme from I.
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Even the rose, by any name, cannot compare with the sakura in depth and breadth of poetic trope or viewing practice.
In the Occident, too, flowers embody beauty and serve as reminders of mortality, but there is no flower that, like the Cherry blossom, stands for all flowers.
Hermits hung poems feting this flower of flowers (to say the generic "flower" = hana in Japanese connotes "Cherry ") on strips of paper from the branches of lone trees where only the wind would read them.
Nobles enjoyed link-verse contests presided over by famous poet-judges.
Enjoyed in the flesh, the blossom-viewing, or hanami, is also of the mind, so much so, in fact, that Poetry is often credited with the spread of the practice over the centuries from the Imperial courts to the maids of Edo.
It takes place whenever the Cherry trees are good and ready.
The major carnival of the year, it is unusual for being held on a date that is not determined by astronomy, astrology or the accidents of history as most such events are in literate cultures.
You tell me If the solemn yet happy New Year\'s is the most important celebration of Japanese (Yamato) ethnic culture, and the quiet aesthetic practice of Moon-viewing in the fall the most elegant expression of Pan-Asian Buddhism=religion, the subject of this book, Blossom-viewing - which generally means sitting down together in vast crowds to drink, dance, sing and otherwise enjoy the Flowering Cherry in full-bloom - is less a rite than a riot (a word originally meaning an \'uproar\').
Translation - applied 7.
Nonfiction - Literature 6.
Japan - Culture - Edo Era 5.
Natural History - Flowering cherries 4.
Japanese Poetry - 8c-20c - waka, haiku and senryu 3.
Haiku -Translation from Japanese to English 2. Gill 1. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku) by robin d.
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Description Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryu and kyoka about a major theme from I