Latest answers

Latest answers

Monday, March 16, 2009

232. The flowers of Yamazakura...

One of the most famous poems in Japanese history, a tanka by Edo era scholar Motoori Norinaga starts thus:

If someone asks about the Yamato spirit of Shikishima
it is the flowers of yamazakura that are fragrant in the Asahi


Significance Please?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

kamikaze