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"The
blooming of cherry blossoms being one of the most respected scenes of nature in
Japan - and truly one of the most beautiful portrayals of beauty in its purest
form - doesn't simply stem from aesthetics, as could be assumed, having in mind
that cherry blossoms in Japan don't bare fruit.
The flower of the sakura is a symbol of purity, and so the bushia is the emblem of the Samurai and warrior ideal.
(...)
The flower of the cherry blossom, transient and fragile, which can easily be carried by the wind, is a Japanese symbol of an ideal death, separated from the material goods of this world and ephemerality of life.
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit,
I would say it is wild cherry blossoms
Glowing in the morning sun!
(Motoori Norinaga 1801).
The fruit of the cherry blossom is a symbol of the warrior calling of the Japanese Samurai and preparation for his fate: ripping off the red peel of the cherry so as to get to the hard pip or, in other words, making a sacrifice of flesh and blood, so as to get to the angled stone of the human body.
The Samurai have adopted the symbol of a cherry blossom leaning towards the rising sun as their emblem - a symbol of their piety. The sabre scabbards was decorated by cherries, the other symbol representing the search for the invisible on their inner path..."
(A Dictionary of Symbols, J. Chevalier, A. Gheerbrant: Stylos, Kiša, Novi Sad, 2004)
The flower of the sakura is a symbol of purity, and so the bushia is the emblem of the Samurai and warrior ideal.
(...)
The flower of the cherry blossom, transient and fragile, which can easily be carried by the wind, is a Japanese symbol of an ideal death, separated from the material goods of this world and ephemerality of life.
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit,
I would say it is wild cherry blossoms
Glowing in the morning sun!
(Motoori Norinaga 1801).
The fruit of the cherry blossom is a symbol of the warrior calling of the Japanese Samurai and preparation for his fate: ripping off the red peel of the cherry so as to get to the hard pip or, in other words, making a sacrifice of flesh and blood, so as to get to the angled stone of the human body.
The Samurai have adopted the symbol of a cherry blossom leaning towards the rising sun as their emblem - a symbol of their piety. The sabre scabbards was decorated by cherries, the other symbol representing the search for the invisible on their inner path..."
(A Dictionary of Symbols, J. Chevalier, A. Gheerbrant: Stylos, Kiša, Novi Sad, 2004)