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Konichiwa こんにちは~!!
Stories are fun to hear. So here's a few concerning my favorite blossom~
♥ Cherry Blossom Tree of the Milkmaid
There is a story about a Sakura tree which lived for more than two hundred years, a milk maid and the daughter of the village leader. The daughter of the village leader fell into a terrible sickness and the milkmaid, who loved her like a mother, prayed to God and traded her life for the young girl's. The family planted the finest Sakura tree they could find on the milkmaid's grave and it is rumored that it is still standing until today.
♥ The Sixteenth Day Sakura Tree
This story revolves around a peculiar Sakura tree. Other Sakura trees bloom during the spring but this tree blooms during the sixteenth day of the first month during the Great Cold. Before this all happened, this tree grew in the yard of a young boy. He loved it so much. He grew very, very old and outlived his neighbors, friends and even children and all he had left was his Sakura tree. When it died he sought for a way to revive it, then on the sixteenth day of the first month he died for the tree. It is said that his ghost lives in the tree and it blooms for that single hour on that day.
♥ Grandfather Cherry Blossom
An old couple had a dog which they loved very much. The dog brought them fortune one day by finding a pot of gold hidden in their back yard. The jelous neighbor asked to borrow the dog and forced it to find gold, but the dog found nothing but bones; in anger the neighbor killed the dog. The couple was very sad and buried the dog, planing a Sakura tree upon its grave. The tree grew very fast and the old man had a dream telling him to make an usu(something like a hammer used to ground rice) from the wood. When the old man used it the rice turned into gold. The neighbor took it from him and when he tried it, the rice turned to garbage. The neighbor broke the usu and burnt it. The old man took the ashes and had a dream to scatter them upon the wilted Sakura tree on his dog's grave. The tree bloomed even though it was winter. A king from a neighboring village heard of this 'magic ash' and asked the old man to sprinkle it upon his favorite, dead Sakura tree. When the old man did Sakura tree blossomed again and the king rewarded him greatly. The neighbor tried to do the same, sprinkling ash upon another Sakura tree of the king. The tree wilted and, angered, the king sent the neighbor to jail.
Sayonara さようなら~!
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