Hana-mi〈花見〉

Not much to say other than Cherry Blossoms. The week we arrived, they were peaking in Tokyo, with people under the trees sitting on blue tarps enjoying the fleeting beauty of trees blossoming.

For many here, the joy of Hana-mi or "flower viewing" is not so much in the beauty of the blossom itself but in the fleetingness of the moment they represent. There is a strange kinship to German Romanticism.

The peak is always when the green leaves and flowers are in equilibrium for me.

— b from Kanda