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Film, Video Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History

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Title

  • Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History

Summary

  • Just as cherry-blossom time comes to Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress presented a lecture on the symbolism of this cherished flower in Japanese culture and history. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, holder of the John W. Kluge Center Chair of Modern Culture at the Library, discussed "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History." The cherry blossom, Japan's national flower, has been cherished by the Japanese people from ancient times to the present. In her illustrated lecture, Ohnuki-Tierney discussed the flower in some if its various symbolic manifestations, from the procreative power of young women to the militaristic representation of men as warriors, who were in times past commanded to "fall like beautiful cherry petals after a short life," as exemplified by the kamikaze suicide aviators of World War II.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-04-02.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-04-02.
  • -  Kids, Families.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688217

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688217/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2009) Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688217/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture and History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-02, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688217/>.