I have been really busy lately working on my monography of japanese cherry blossoms, not to mention math projects, filosofy essays, english analysis....
well here is a part of information I got for my monography, it talks about a legend concerning the origin of Sakura trees:
"For more than one thousand years, the tender blossoms have been loved by the people of Japan. The very word "sakura" stems from the word "sakuya", which means blooming. Named after the Princess Kono-han-sakuya-Hime (tree-flower-blooming-princess) who is enshrined on top of Mt Fuji, who according to legend dropped from heaven onto a cherry tree, this love is long-rooted in history. She is the daughter of the mountain god O-Yama-Tsu-Mi. She married Ninigi, the grandson of Amaterasu."
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