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The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
The Matsuyama Shiroyama Koen Cherry Blossom Festival is held every year in early April in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The Matsuyama Castle is lit up with paper lanterns at night until 9 PM. People eat home-cooked meals or take-out food under the cherry blossom tree, combined with drinking sake, talking and singing songs.
Japanese festivals, or matsuri (Japanese: 祭り), are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.The origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings to the kami", and ...
In April, we gathered for a great celebration of Japanese culture and the friendship between Nashville and Japan. The Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival welcomed perfect weather, tasty food from ...
The festival will showcase events throughout April, but the highlights will take place the weekend of April 13-14, Saura Weekend. These include a Japanese fashion walk, "Pretty in Pink" pet parade ...
The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA ; International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA; Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of celebrating the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms; An annual festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in ...
Macon is known as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World, because 300,000 sakura trees grow there. [29] In Brooklyn, New York, the Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in May, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. [30] This festivity has been celebrated since 1981, and is one of the Garden's most famous attractions.
During the festival, visitors encounter Japanese tradition of flower viewing or hanami including other traditional practices in the Japanese culture. This includes Japanese street food, performances from traditional dancers and Japanese drum or taiko troupes, and more! In 2023, the Cherry Blossom festival had “performances by the San Diego ...