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Good brief
explanation of Ohanami
in English at the " Kids Web Japan"
website. |
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Site
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Hanami
web page in
English at the "japan-guide.com" website. |
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Site
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Hanami web page in English at
the "WikiPedia" website. |
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Site 4 |
A personal but interesting
Ohanami experience in English
by an American from the "greggman.com" website. |
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Site 5 |
History of
Ohanami in Japanese at the
"Smart Garden" website. |
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Site 6 |
Ohanami web pages in Japanese at
the "All
About"
website. |
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Site 7 |
Ohanami page in Japanese
at the "ウィキペディア"
website. |
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Site 8 |
Brief explanation of ohanami
in Japanese at the "ひろしま通訳・ガイド協会" website. |
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Site 9 |
The National
Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, D.C., US) website |
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Site 10 |
This page
describes what happens at ohanami
with some practical cautions (in
English, "Tanu Tech" website). |
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Site 11 |
"How to do cherry blossom
viewing?" page at the "japan-guide.com"
website (in Japanese). |
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Site 12 |
Historical information on
sakura (桜・花見について) at the "平安大事典−歴史と文化" website (in
Japanese). |
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Site 13 |
An essay titled "The Cherry
Blossom in Heian Waka poetry" at the
"openspaceindia.org" website (in English). |
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Site 14 |
"お花見情報2007 -
Regional sakura blooming information by prefecture" from
the "エキサイト(Excite)" website
(updated daily from March 1 to April
27). The following is the translation for the
legend:
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Site 15 |
A press release on an Internet
Survey on Ohanami (お花見に関する意識調査 - 平成16年3月17日) at the
"アサヒビール (Asahi Breweries)" website, which was conducted
in March
2004. There are some interesting results in the
survey, which was responded by
1540 Japanese people of age
over 20.
To the question "Are you planning to go to Ohanami this
year?", 24.3% answered "I will definitely go" and 34.8%
answered "I haven't decided yet but I think I will",
which means that almost 60% of those who responded have
the intention to go to Ohanami. If you add the 29.9% who
answered "I would like to go if I get a chance", almost
90% of the respondents plan to go to Ohanami.
To the question "With whom would you like to go to
Ohanami?", 56.7% answered "with my family", followed by
26.6% who answered "with my friends". 7.4% answered
"with colleagues at work" and 4.4% answered with "こいびと".
To the question "What are you looking forward to at
Ohanam?", 35.0% answered "enjoying the cherry blossoms"
whereas 25.4% answered "drinking while watching cherry
blossoms" and 13.5% answered "eating tasty things while
watching cherry blossoms".
There are some more interesting results in the survey.
Grade 11 & 12/Year 11 & 12
students should be able to read the release.
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Site
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Beautiful sakura photos from many parts
of Japan at the "全国お花見ガイド
投稿写真ギャラリー"
page of "goo" website. Go to this page and click on any
thumbnails to enlarge it. There are
also different areas listed. Click an area and click any
thumbnail on the page. |
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Site 18 |
Some
ohanami party/picnic photos (and how-to-ohanami-party
articles) at the "web
マガジン「マカロニ・アンモナイト」"
website |
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Site 19 |
Sakura photos from different places
at the "FNS列島桜中継"
webpage of the "fuji-network.com" website. |
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Site
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A webpage with photos of sakura in ordinary places (not
in parks) -
an interesting perspective - at the "Angus Tin"
website. Click on each photo to enlarge it. |
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Site
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Virtual
yozakura web page. "Yo-zakura kenbutsu", or night-time
cherry blossom viewing, is also very popular. People go
to see sakura that are illuminated after dark. Go to
this page and click on one of the two photos to start a
series of "yozakura photos". From "桜便り"
website. |
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Ohanami activities お花見のアクティビティ |
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Site
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Hanami paper craft - Downloadable
hanami paper craft with
assembly instructions in English at the "Yamaha Motor
Company" website. Very nice. |
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Site 23 |
Try to catch as many falling
sakura petals as possible by moving the cup held by the
funny guy to where the petals come down. Click on the
middle part of the picture to start the game, then you
need to move the arrow (pointer) to the direction where
you want and click. (Shock wave plug-in required) |
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Site 24 |
MIDI Music file of "さくらさくら"
at the "Classic MIDI Reinmusik" website. You
can either download the file and play it again later, or
go back to this page and listen to the music again. To
download, click on "ダウンロード" and save the file to
where you want. Once you saved the file, you can play it
by clicking on the file icon. |
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Site 25 |
MP3 file of "さくらさくら"
at the "ingeb.org" website. This page has the lyrics in
Romaji and its English translation. |
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Site 26 |
Hanami
eCard ("ポスカ
グリーティングカード" website)
- Make an Ohanami eCard and send it to your friend. |
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お花見 ワークシート（日本語） |
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Ohanami Worksheet (English)
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