Comments on: Spring has not arrived…. http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2005-03-29/spring-has-not-arrived/ Sen ri no michi mo ippô yori hajimaru. Sat, 08 May 2010 13:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Gavin http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2005-03-29/spring-has-not-arrived/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Gavin Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:38:20 +0000 http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/index.php/archives/2005-03-29/spring-has-not-arrived/#comment-157 Could well have been Plum Blossom to be honest. Can't say I'm a huge expert on it all. Having said that, it seemed to have got a bunch of the locals all excited with shouts of "すごいかわい！". Maybe they, they are just as horticulturally challenged as me :) Thanks for tip on the book. Will look it up. Could well have been Plum Blossom to be honest. Can’t say I’m a huge expert on it all. Having said that, it seemed to have got a bunch of the locals all excited with shouts of “すごいかわい！”. Maybe they, they are just as horticulturally challenged as me :)

Thanks for tip on the book. Will look it up.

]]> By: bogue http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2005-03-29/spring-has-not-arrived/comment-page-1/#comment-153 bogue Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:23:35 +0000 http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/index.php/archives/2005-03-29/spring-has-not-arrived/#comment-153 Are you sure they were cherry blossoms in Ueno? Could have been plum blossoms. Only I saw a very serious bright young thing on some news programme intoning that cherry blossom season was *almost* here as they had begun to open in Miyazaki pref, Kyushu (which as you rightly point out, doesn't make it official as official things can only happen in Tokyo). By the by, have you read Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson? Jolly good fun as he follows the cherry blossom line (sakura zensen) from Kyushu to Hokkaido one spring. Well worth it. Are you sure they were cherry blossoms in Ueno? Could have been plum blossoms. Only I saw a very serious bright young thing on some news programme intoning that cherry blossom season was *almost* here as they had begun to open in Miyazaki pref, Kyushu (which as you rightly point out, doesn’t make it official as official things can only happen in Tokyo).

By the by, have you read Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson? Jolly good fun as he follows the cherry blossom line (sakura zensen) from Kyushu to Hokkaido one spring. Well worth it.

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