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Originally Posted by heroinreyn

i read on a website about how in japan flowers have meanings behind them.....you mentioned that long ago they felt the flowers represented having ;lived a full life.....would you say that's a pretty deepset cultural meaning.....or has the influence of the western world upon the modern culture affected what the cherry blossom represents?

In my humble opinion, which is pretty amateurish considering I have never set a foot in Japan, I would say the given association definitely originated from a long legacy of cultures. It might simultaneously have been, as you suggest, be imbued by Western nature.

Studies show that Hanami was introduced by the Chinese to Japan. From my sincere belief, the said depiction of the cherry blossoms was possibly impregnated with the saturation of the two cultures.