By ROKU GODA/ Staff Writer
May 2, 2020 at 10:30 JST
Toshiatsu Hattori holds a new cherry blossom variety that he grew while also working as a strawberry farmer in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Roku Goda)
Cherry blossoms have long been loved by Japanese and celebrated in poetry as harbingers of spring. In the early Heian Period (794-1185), Ariwara no Narihira penned a piece about how people became very excited every spring when the delicate pink flowers bloomed. [Read More]
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