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Jim's avatar

I love that the blossoms are most beautiful just before the end, like a princess at her fullest beauty suddenly fallen: so wabi-sabi.

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Hideo Tanikawa's avatar

Jim, thanks for your comment. I like the term "Sakura Fubuki," a billow of cherry blossom petals. It looks like being in the storm of petals. There are lots of SAKURA-related terms in Japanese. The following site may give you some more ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ILmXwvrNE

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Jim's avatar

Hi Hideo,

Yes, that is beautiful. The music also.

Pavane pour une infante défunt, pavane for a dead princess, perhaps fits with the wabi-sabi of the cherry blossoms. I think of a beautiful younng girl, une jeune fille en fleur, suddenly fallen, taken, lost.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2_c8JRCKq1A

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Hideo Tanikawa's avatar

Hello, Jim. That is the beautiful music.

The image of cherry blossom petals falling in the air resembles the hauntingly beautiful music. It is not a powerful image conveyed from the front, but it has a kind of tenderness that envelops the heart.

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