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In Lotus-Land Japan (1922) (Paperback)
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In Lotus-Land Japan (1922) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III THE FLOWER FESTIVALS OF TOKYO Most visitors endeavour
to arrive in Japan in spring, in time to see the Cherry-blossom
Festivals. Reverence for flowers is one of the most charming
characteristics of the Japanese. They are not flower-lovers,
however, in the sense that Europeans are, for they care not for
every flower. They love only a few; but these few they love in a
different way from any other people. Their love amounts almost to
worship. They hold great festivals in honour of their favourites,
and they flock to famous spots to view them by hundreds of
thousands. For a brief week or two each year, all Japan is a very s
hrine to Flora, as any one who has been there in spring-time can
affirm. It is a land of azaleas and cherry-blossoms. The face of
the country smiles with them, and the latter are far more
symbolical of the Empire of the Rising Sun than the chrysanthemum,
which forms the Imperial crest. If trees be included in the
category, the flower-festivals of Tokyo begin with the first day of
the year, when everybody goes round visiting his neighbour to wish
him "Shinnen ? mdto gozaimas"?the equivalent for our own greeting
at that season. New Year's Day is the festival of the bamboo and
the pine, and every house-door is decorated with these
evergreens?the one emblematical of straight and honourable dealing;
the other of long life and good fortune. The real flowers begin
with the plum-blossoms, which burst late in February and bloom well
on into March. In Tokyo, Kameido is one of the most famous places
to see them, for in the gardens of this old Shinto temple are
gnarled and tortured veteran trees that creep, and writhe, and
twist them- CHERRY-BLOSSOM TIME IN JAPAN chapter{Section 4selves
into amazing contortions along the surface of the gro...
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