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🌸🍵BYE BYE BLOSSOMS🍯😋

there comes a time
even in blossoming Kyōto...
sick of it
或時は花の都にも倦にけり
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1795.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

A little wind and rain, and sakura season draws to a close...but not before we toast the blossoms goodbye.

#Kyoto #Japan #cherryblossoms #京都 #桜 #sakura

Sunset at Keage, where boats would be carried by train track between sections of canal.
Blossoms at Keage.
Nao-san bid the blossoms farewell along the Tenjingawa, where the path runs under sakura trees.

camelliakyoto OP ,
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There was a charming belief that the first spring lightning (初雷 'hatsurai') awoke hibernating insects in the ground, and thus it was also called 'mushidashi-no-kaminari' (虫出しの雷 'surfacing insect lightning').

Between March and May storms were known as 'shunrai' (春雷).

At this time of year a variety of sweets called 'shunrai' ('spring lightning') are produced. The surface of the sweet looks cracked, as if the earth has been struck by lightning.
Sanjusangen-do's famous statue of Fujin (the god of wind).
Sanjusangen-do's famous statue of Raijin (the god of thunder), surrounded by drums which he uses to make thunder.

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