Mountain grape vines decorate the scenery with their vivid colorful fruit. The grape is a rare motif in Japanese embroidery.
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Weeping cherry tree branches hang down like those of willows. Many pink, red, and white flowers bloom on each hanging branch. Also, the flowers hanging on the thin branches look as if they are hung on threads. It is called “Weeping thread cherry”. Some of these trees attain an excellent age of over 1000 years.
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Ears of rice turn golden when the husks of the rice plants have accumulated enough nutrients. About 40-45 days after the ears appear, the now golden ears of rice are hanging down, and it is time to harvest the rice.
The ears of rice that bend low, as if from recognition of its cultivation owed to nature’s blessings, represent an appreciation of blessings.
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According to the Cyclical Perspective of Life, life is a cycle. We can see that life has its own seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Every “season of life” has an irreplaceable meaning. Summer is the Prime of Life, the young and strong age.
Summer is the time when most plants achieve overwhelming growth and become lush.
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Based on the Cyclical perspective of life, we see life as a cycle.
The four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, which nature repeats, cannot be replaced and each season has its own brilliance.
Winter, when the weather turns bitterly cold. This is the time when the trees prepare for the next spring, dreaming of its next arrival.