Cherry Blossom Festival, Chokosai Eisho - Now & Zen Inc.
Hanami was first used as a term analogous to cherry blossom viewing in the Heian era novel Tale of Genji.
Emperor of the Heian Period adopted the practice of holding flower-viewing parties with sake and feasts underneath the blossoming boughs of sakura trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. Poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.
This was said to be the origin of hanami in Japan.
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