Hanamiliterally “looking at flowers” is the ancient Japanese custom of contemplating the beauty of flowers. Today, it is particularly fashionable with cherry blossoms (Sakura) for both Japanese and tourists. The autumn counterpart ofHanamiis Momijigari,the observation of the changing colors of leaves). And yes, everything always has a very specific name in Japan ;)
Moonlight white, crow's wing color, wet crow's feather color, young bamboo green, eggshell color... When we start to be interested in colors in Japan, the vocabulary makes us smile and surprises, our terminology seems very poor compared to this!
