Early in April takes place what is perhaps as superb a sight as anything in this world, the blossoming of the cherry-trees.

Indeed, it is not easy to do the thing justice in description.

If the plum invited admiration, the cherry commands it; for to see the sakura in flower for the first time is to experience a new sensation.

Familiar as a man may be with cherry blossoms at home, the sight there bursts upon him with the dazzling effect of a revelation.

Such is the profusion of flowers that the tree seems to have turned into a living mass of rosy light.