{"id":5066,"date":"2010-03-30T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:34:15","slug":"sakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/sakura\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakura"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As promised<\/a>, I took some cherry blossom (sakura<\/I>) pictures of the Kanda River this morning. In the above photo some people are staking out a spot for flower viewing (hanami<\/I>). Blue tarps are always used for some reason.<\/p>\n

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We sat on one of the blue tarps this past weekend at a hanami<\/I> we were invited to attend. There weren’t many flowers yet, but the food was great, the company much more pleasant than the non-smiling faces above indicate, and we played loads of tennis with them too.<\/p>\n

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Everyone (except those suffering from allergies I suppose) loves sakura, but there are three groups who really love the cherry blossoms. They are the photographers, …<\/p>\n

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… the kids, …<\/p>\n

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and especially the (old) ladies (with a camera).<\/p>\n

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Kansenen Koen (\u7518\u6cc9\u5712\u516c\u5712) has only one cherry tree. What it lacks in numbers it makes up for in magnificence as that one tree is really spectacular.<\/p>\n

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Basho’s hermitage is in the background of the above photo. The river is once again the Kanda.<\/p>\n

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Watching this guy try to get a picture of his bulldog along with the cherry blossoms brought a bigger smile to my face than the blossoms themselves. Everyone is happy when the blossoms are out. It’s a great time to take a walk and see everyone smiling, even if you can’t get your pet to grin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, I took some cherry blossom (sakura) pictures of the Kanda River this morning. In the above photo some people are staking out a spot for flower viewing (hanami). Blue tarps are always used for some reason. We sat on one of the blue tarps this past weekend at a hanami we were invited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[93,247,176,225,248,92,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}