The Sakura season has officially arrived in Osaka...but I haven't seen them yet...The cherry trees near my house are not yet blooming...they seem to be frozen since it started to get chilly again!
The above picture was sent to me by my dear friend Blossom in northern Kyushu.
The Sakura where she lives are blooming a tad bit faster and now look like this:
When I wait for spring the way I do now there is a song that pops into my head. "Haru Yo Koi" (Come Spring) by Matsutoya Yumi, aka Yuming.
My husband met her a long time ago...
He talks about this nostalgically and adds..."she told me that I am handsome".
Aahh, the things you say when you are drunk...lol
Anyway, this is the song, she has a "unique" voice and it gets stuck in my head like taffy to hair.
The lyrics are rather complicated but let me see if I can do a quick and rough interpretation here:
"Come Spring"
A pale shade of light and the rain suddenly pours down
The daphne an image I hold dear
From the buds come pouring tears
and the fragrance, one by one
It comes, it comes beyond the sky and before long,
before long it comes for me
Oh spring, so far away you are
If I close my eyes you are right there
I can recall your voice that brought me love
My heart I sent to you
I am still waiting for a reply
No matter how many days or months pass by
I will be waiting, waiting
It comes, it comes beyond tomorrow, someday,
someday it will arrive
Oh spring, the spring I have yet to see
When I am lost and cannot move
In my dreams your gentle gaze embraces me
Oh dreams, early dreams I am here
I think of you as I walk alone
Like the falling rain, like the falling blossoms
The daphne an image I hold dear
From the buds come pouring tears
and the fragrance, one by one
It comes, it comes beyond the sky and before long,
before long it comes for me
Oh spring, so far away you are
If I close my eyes you are right there
I can recall your voice that brought me love
My heart I sent to you
I am still waiting for a reply
No matter how many days or months pass by
I will be waiting, waiting
It comes, it comes beyond tomorrow, someday,
someday it will arrive
Oh spring, the spring I have yet to see
When I am lost and cannot move
In my dreams your gentle gaze embraces me
Oh dreams, early dreams I am here
I think of you as I walk alone
Like the falling rain, like the falling blossoms
(The song was written by Yuming and inspired by an old Japanese song by the same title.)
There are TONS of songs that are titled "Sakura"...if you look for songs with the word "sakura" in the title or lyrics there are even MORE.
New songs titled "Sakura" come out every year (I am not kidding). I don't really have a favorite but there is one song that was released in 2002 and still gets lots of air play...
"Sakura" by Moriyama Naotaro. This one (thank goodness) has English lyrics on the video...though a little hard to see.
Sakura bath salts, sakura motif towel, handkerchief, bookmark and a book of sakura trees in Kyoto!
