Thursday, April 3, 2014

Osaka: Our “hanami”.

Monday, 31st March, 2014.

Hanami  (literally "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the short-lived beauty of flowers, almost always meaning cherry blossoms.

 

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With the help of a young Japanese girl called Maya, we celebrated our own hanami in the grounds of Osaka Castle (along with a lot of other people.)

 

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Although the Osaka cherry blossom season didn’t officially open for another two days, people were celebrating hanami with friends, family, and company co-workers by having a picnic under the trees.  People will go and mind places with blue tarps, often in shifts, for hours or even days before. 

 

Some more cherry blossom shots:

 

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