falling flowers

List:
– cherry blossoms
– Japanese culture
– renewal
– celebration of life
– good fortune
– ephemeral nature of life
– death
– rebirth
– symbolism
– nationalistic purposes
– military purposes
– Japan’s modernization
– Japan’s militarization
– sacrifice of young soldiers
– fall of the petals
– Cherry blossom art in Japan
– life and death dialectics
– Tokyo
– Hiroshima
– remote regions of west Japan
– trees planted after World War II
– nuclear-contaminated soil
– death and nationalism
– Buddhist temples