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...But it took my travelling to Japan last year during the exuberant height of the sakura season — with its blossom-watching hanami parties and its bright pink paper lanterns lighting up the trees at night...
...menu devised by head chef Jed Wrobel to dig into in Carnation House. waterlane.net Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Newly commissioned compositions by students from the Royal College of Music celebrate the sakura...
...March 3; further information here Events and festivals Sakura season Tokyo’s cherry blossom are forecast to bloom earlier than usual this year, between March 23 and 30....
...This limited edition is finished, most unusually, in sakura, or Japanese cherry-blossom wood casks, which impart subtle floral and spice notes to the blend. thewhiskyexchange.com Bacanha Brut Lime Syrup...
...There are plenty of experimental and seasonal brews too, such as the sakura (cherry blossom) beer created in the spring....
...In sakura season, the cherry trees along the river look like weeping willows — their branches extend over the water, filled with beautiful blossoms....
...of the north Swedish fells with notes of heather, thyme and sap. skandinavisk.com Madame Butterfly room spray by Summerill & Bishop £48 Referencing Puccini’s opera, this scent has notes of verbena and sakura...
...Once the pink florets are visible, we know that the hanami season (the practice of viewing of cherry blossoms, or sakura, in full bloom) is just around the corner....
...And I kind of love it for that reason: all the Japanese significance, the sakura; both optimistic and sad… renewal and death.”...
...If you are lucky enough to be visiting Tokyo during the sakura season of March and April, the cherry blossoms along the banks of the Kanda river is a must-see....
...with Amarena cherry; while editor Anna Wintour has been immortalised as an iced vanilla biscuit complete with trademark sunglasses. the-berkeley.co.uk Perrier-Jouët Terrace at Scott’s A vision in golden blossom...
...Sakura means everything in Japan....
...The wording was astute: literally, it means “the cherry blossoms will bloom”....
...More ephemeral pleasures are observed by John Gapper, who experienced an unusually quiet sakura season in Tokyo (“Splendid isolation: a surreal sakura season”)....
...During a spring rainstorm I noticed a pocket park with at least five different colours of sakura (cherry blossom trees) set back from the road, their pinks complementing the tiles of the buildings behind...
...Several cultural festivals herald the beginning of spring — the colour and chaos of Holi in India, the saffron-scented Persian feasts of Nowruz and Sakura Matsuri beneath the bubble-gum-pink cherry blossoms...
...There are three parts — a formal English garden, a traditional Japanese garden and a landscape garden — which include the well-known sakura (cherry blossom trees) in late March and a kaleidoscopic rose collection...
...Jones took those same interests but shot the whole thing into space, with a hypermodern vision of pink floral sakura and metallics, shown in Tokyo around a 39ft gleaming silver super-sexed-up female robot...
...As well as pearls, Tasaki uses top-grade diamonds and has developed its own shade of pink gold, known as Sakura Gold, that evokes the colour of cherry blossom. “That is our role,” Mr Tajima says....
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...Before choosing the name Luminex, Fidelity had codenamed its dark pool “sakura”, after the Japanese word for cherry blossom....
...the Japanese word for cherry blossom....
...On the outside was the symbol of sakura, the cherry blossom that is about to flower in Japan; inside was a list of the dishes that followed the ritual of the kaiseki meal....
...“Every time of year is wonderful here – the sakura [cherry blossom] season is beautiful, but so is the autumn with all the changing colours,” he says....
...(Financial Times) Attempting to combat HFT firms, several of the world’s largest asset managers are discussing the creation of a joint equity trading venue codenamed Sakura, which means cherry blossom in...
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