First time I saw the sakura blossom in Tokyo I was not impressed at all. Is that all? Just flowers? We also have flowers in Spain! I guess I was too young and stupid to understand it.
It is not about seeing flowers, it is about the experience. It is not about the trees, it is about us enjoying an afternoon below the trees.
Sakura beauty appears every spring, every year, no matter what; marking the passing of time. It is about feeling the impermanence of the flowers and relating it to our own existence.
How many more times will we experience sakura/hanami during our lifetime?
Other moments in Tokyo
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Conversations, World Affairs, Culture
"I'm from Libya," he said. I don't know what to say. It's as if he'd told me he'd just come from his father's funeral.
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The first specialty coffee shop in Ikebukuro and Junkudo (bookstore) resonate.
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film, edit
Editing is interpreting.
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The Riddle of Steel.
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Commutes, Cities, Underground
The man stands motionless in a crush of white-shirted salarymen, as they swarm past him, toward the single escalator.
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Reve, japan, Centre commercial piscine
Rêve de centre commercial-piscine
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Urban Nature, birds
Sparrow Noise
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City walks
Birthday walk home
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Dead Letter, Addiction
"Dear Cigarettes"
in Tokyo, Japan