(sakura Zensen)

桜前線 「さくらぜんせん」 (sakura zensen) 🍒🌸

It means the cherry blossom front. The Japan Meteorological Agency records the opening and full bloom of the blossoms from Kyūshū in late March to Hokkaidō in the middle of May. I wrote this kanji because the cherry blossom season has started in Japan.

The cherry blossom front between Kyushu and Kanto, 2007

Genji is not a perfect person, but there’s a purity to him, a beauty that’s clearly meant to be lauded, particularly in contrast to later chapters. He’s in love with love, a true romantic, and his sometimes unwise affairs are motivated by a true sense of love. He never abandons one of his lovers, which in this time is crucial. No matter the shame it brings to himself, he tries to find a way to honor the women he’s fallen for. He’s charming. No one can not love him, or ultimately forgive him his faults.

The age of Tale of Genji had strict rules of romance—of how flirtations worked (largely intermediaries and poetry), of how commitments worked, of how aloof vs. present it was appropriate to be (it’s good to commit but bad to hoard or become jealous). It was possible to love too much. Genji is accused of this, but he always remembers to care for the people he is responsible for—once he grows up that is.

Early in the text, he neglects his wife, and he also neglects “the Rokujo lady.” The Rokujo lady becomes so jealous and enraged that her spirit begins to sicken his wife. This ghost returns more than once over the course of the text. She has grown sick from obsession and neglect, and Genji pays the price for it. It’s part of what motivates him to always care for the women he romances for the rest of his life.

Later, in the “Uji” chapters, young Kaoru and prince Niou also love too much. Niou is impulsive like Genji but also flighty, and Kaoru is serious like Genji but also obsessive. Both men pursue the women at Uji with insistence that the text can’t quite forgive as it could for Genji. Both, somehow, go too far—perhaps in their attempts to hoard, or in their impatience.

「不思議」 ふしぎ/fushigi - Wonder, mysterious 🔮✨️

神無月 (kan-na-zuki) "October" (archaic)

神 = god 無 = not 月 = month

The modern Japanese word for October is 十月 (literally "10th Month), however in the old-fashioned calendar is was known as 神無月, or "the month with no gods". 

In October, all the gods in Japan (there are believed to be 8 million of them) go to Izumo Shrine in Shimane Prefecture for a meeting, thus leaving most of Japan with no gods.

The huge shimenawa (sacred rope) at Izumo Shrine.

Cherry Blossom Forecast 2024 Japan

Japan 2024 Cherry Blossom Forecast

The dates are the expected dates for the beginning of flowering.

Tokyo is expected to start flowering on March 23rd and reach peak bloom on March 30th.

Kyoto will see the first flowers on March 23rd and peak bloom will be April 1st.

Hokkaido (Sapporo) will see first bloom on May 1st and peak bloom on May 4th.

The next forecast update will be on March 14th.

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hover over the boop button and wait for it to do the spinning animation at least 3 times, then click it and it should give u this pop-up

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