Alt Cherry

This spring has been hella cold and rainy, so not only did the cherry blossoms bloom a week late, everyone’s selfies in front of the pinkness feature brave smiles hunched in Seattle-worthy raingear.

Which is why we need to be cheered by the pink pleasures of hanami season that don’t give a fig for the weather! Like…

Cherry blossom video art

Cherry blossom-themed art pops up everywhere this time of year, so keep your eyes open! I randomly chanced across this video installation by Yoichi Ochiai…

at a Shibuya Side gallery, that positioned this looping video 3-D cube…

against a wall of monitors streaming cherry blossoms in various stages of blooming

Cherry blossom nail art

Sorry, just had to show you my little nod to the season!

Cherry blossom food

And naturally, in addition to the pink-bunned cherry blossom burgers, “cherry blossom flavored” snax and WTactualF pink lunches, Starbucks Japan can be counted on for a pinker-than-pink seasonal frap…

and we’re not even going to pretend that isn’t candy on top AND lurking at the bottom.

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If you’d like more seasonal pinkness and general blooming Japan stuff in your life…

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