Ever? I suppose that is subjective, as the news article I saw did NOT state when 'EVER' actually began time-wise.
Is it from the time media began collecting data? From the time people actually began performing flower peeping as a national past-time? From the past 3,000 years or back when the mythical Jimmu became Japan's first emperor?
Who the fug knows. I hate crap like that.
I often try to get away with a two or three paragraph article within this blog - but when I see that there are questions unanswered, I spend however long it takes until I find that answer and present it. And, if there are further questions revealed, I will endeavor to answer them all until it seems as though I have researched a book.
And then I have to do it again the next day. And maybe 100 people care to read it, as the other 1200 people want to look at huge Japanese breasts. I mean, I don't blame them, but come on... learn something while you learn to click your mouse with the opposite hand.
And yet, I bet thousands of people have clicked onto the original-source article to get an incomplete story - and gladly Tweet about it via Twitter or Facebook.
I understand that media only has a certain amount of room to present the facts because it believes the reader has a limited... uhhhh, what was I writing about?... oh year, attention span!
But... if you are going to make a cryptic statement, at least have the common decency to back up the facts. If you can't, change the article so that's its not confusing.
The media DOES have SOME responsibility, after all.
Even dumb ass bloggers or twiterati need to present the whole story... and do so in 140 characters or less. I personally would like to see a whole story presented via 140 characters or less.
Aaaarggggghhh! I think I need to sit under a tree, stare at some blossoms, and contemplate my navel while having a few glasses of shochu (Japanese rice wine).
It's cold and wet out side right now, though we're supposed to get freezing rain soon enough (just before rush hour as I craft la belle tale). There are no flowers anywhere. My navel and I aren't speaking, but I do have shochu.
Vincent says Boston got about six inches of snow. Kate says NY City and Connecticut got a couple of inches, but it's raining and turning to slush - like in Boston.
Toronto, where I am, we got maybe a 1/4 -inch of snow and then freezing rain.
Hanami? In Tokyo?
Last year in Ontario (where Toronto is located) and parts of Michigan, the fruits industry was devastated after an early thaw was followed by normal March temperatures that killed all the buds on the trees.
Aside from the sand storms hitting Japan, I sure hope you don't get cold weather again this winter... and it still is winter right now. Stupid calendar.
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
Thanks to Vincent for the heads up. And, yes, I did visit the CNN website, which is where the photo above came from. I believe the story was itself taken from the Daily Yomiuri newspaper. And really... more information, please!
PS: And yes, I am aware of the irony of not giving you the full story about the timeline of the earliest Hanami ever. But here, I'm not just reporting the news, and reporting ON the news. Or something like... what was I writing about? Attention spans? No... the weather. Right...
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