Pranam
I was reading the one conception of falling flowers. It opened up my
box of collections Sharing the falling flowers:
Falling flowers
1 For many centuries cherry blossoms were, and still are, highly
significant in Japanese culture. The rich and complex meanings of these
blossoms constitute a matrix of interrelated concepts, associated with renewal,
the celebration of life and good fortune, but also predicated by the
ephemeral nature of life, death and rebirth.
In other words, the symbol stands for process and relationships, not an
isolated concept. In the 19th century, with the beginning of the Meiji era,
when Japan begun its modernisation, militarization and colonial expansion, the
symbolic meaning of the cherry blossoms was re-appropriated for
nationalistic and military purposes. It is precisely because cherry
blossoms stand for life, predicated by death and rebirth, that the Japanese
military were able to tip the scales and exploit their symbolism in terms
of death instead of life. For the imperial state, the virtue of cherry
blossoms was not the life force represented by the petals as a full flower,
but was instead the premature fall of the virginal petals as symbols of the
sacrifice made by the young soldiers, since to die without clinging to life
was a concept later introduced by the state to convince Kamikaze soldiers
to plunge into death.
The symbolism of the cherry blossoms was transformed from full *blooms as
a life force to individual falling petals as a representation of* the
sacrifice of soldiers and their subsequent rebirth. In post -A Bomb
Hiroshima- they are all fed from the nuclear contaminated soil, while in
Tokyo they are often associated with death and nationalism, located in
Kamikaze memorial shrines and around the imperial palace. In contrast,
these trees are often located in the vicinity of Buddhist temples and are
associated with the force of life.
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2 Parallel in India is the PAVAZHA MALLI THE FALLING FLOWERS WHICH IS
FRESH FOR PUJAS.
KR IRS 061322
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