Mount Yoshino Blossoms in April (Photo: Steph Marley)
Mount Yoshino Blossoms in April (Photo: Steph Marley)

Apr 16, 2013 - 1 min read

Sakura of Mount Yoshino in Nara

Famed in poetry: a blossoming symbol of spring

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Could I die
under a cherry blossom tree
in full bloom
on a full-moon night
of spring?

- Monk Saigyo (1118 - 1190)

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Stephanie Marley

By Stephanie Marley

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Mount Yoshino Blossoms in April (Photo: Steph Marley)
O Mount Yoshino! / I would not leave you, I feel / yet, until your flowers fall / would she wait for me? (Photo: photo: Steph Marley. Poem: Monk Saigyo)
Kinpusenji, Center of Yoshino Mountain Worship (Photo: Steph Marley)
The emergence of flowers herald spring (Photo: Steph Marley)
Trail to the Top (Photo: Steph Marley)
Where Yoshitsune fled from his brother, left his lover, and Hideyoshi threw hanami parties. Yoshimizu Shrine. (Photo: Steph Marley)
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