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A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura after the Japanese (桜 or 櫻; さくら).
Cherry blossom is speculated to be native to the Himalayas. Currently it is widely distributed, especially in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere including Europe, West Siberia, India, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, and the United States. The cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
Many of the varieties that have been cultivated for ornamental use do not produce fruit. Edible cherries generally come from cultivars of the related species Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus. Cherry blossom are also closely related to other Prunus trees such as the almond, peach, plum and apricot and more distantly to apples, pears and roses.
"Hanami" is the centuries-old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. The custom is said to have started during the Nara Period (710–794) when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning. But by the Heian Period (794–1185), cherry blossoms came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura. From then on, in both waka and haiku, "flowers" (花, hana) meant "cherry blossoms". The custom was originally limited to the elite of the Imperial Court, but soon spread to samurai society and, by the Edo period, to the common people as well. Tokugawa Yoshimune planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank sake in cheerful feasts.
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A black television screen
Snow white and black
Deep and open
Splashing against the windows
Looking out onto a three-terrace town
There's a garden, gray-green
And cherry blossoms
Get in in the morning
(All seasons here, saved for a rainy day)
Climb in beside you
(A part of a hole)
Watch the clock for half an hour
(An orange and it's peel)
It's cold on the outside
There's steam on the windows
(A star in a night sky)
And I put myself there all the time
(A gentle beauty)
You let me forget again
And I snore on and on
You let me forget again
Forget how it feels to be wrong
If I could show her completely
(Funny how everything makes you feel low when you're already low)
But it comes so drunkardly now
(Lying on the bed, the light bulb banging down)
Fall over on my words
(Get up, pull the sheet from the window, to see the rain still coming down)
That peace when the door slams
(Downstairs there's hot coffee, sit down to a cigarette)
Soon shattered [Incomprehensible]
(Down to the filter, another and down to my last)
I came so well-oiled
(Another and my last penny)
You let me forget again
(4 a.m. 6 feet down, already up with the larks)
And I came stumbling through
You let me forget again
(4 a.m. 6 feet down, already up with the larks)