A view of a cherry grove at Kowakidani, Hakone 
Shikishima no Yamato gokoro wo 
Hito towaba 
Asahi ni niou 
Yamazakura bana 
Isles of blest Japan! 
Should your Yamato spirit 
Strangers seek to scan, 
Say—scenting morn’s sunlit air 
Blows the cherry wild and fair! 
—wNitobe’s Soul of Japan 
The cherry flowers under a moonlit sky, cherry 
flowers in breezy weather, or cherry flowers in rain, 
which are very frequently adopted as the subject of 
~AT 
