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The practice of hanami is many centuries old. The custom is said to have started during the Nara period (710–794 AD) when it was a flower called "oohmeh" blossoms that people admired in the beginning. But by the Heian period (794–1185 AD), sakura came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura. From then on, in both waka and haiku, "flowers" meant "sakura".

Hanami was first used as a term analogous to cherry blossom viewing, in the Heian era novel The Tale of Genji. Although a wisteria viewing party was also described, the terms "hanami" and "flower party" were subsequently used only in reference to cherry blossom viewing.

Sakura originally was used to divine that year’s harvest as well as announce the rice-planting season. People believed in kami inside the trees and made offerings. Afterwards, they partook of the offering with sahkee.

Emperor Saga of the Heian period adopted this practice, and held flower-viewing parties with sahkee and feasts underneath the blossoming boughs of sakura trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. Poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral. This was said to be the origin of Hanami in Japan.

If there were no cherry blossoms in this world
How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.
Ariwara no Narihira (825 – 880 AD)
The custom was originally limited to the elite of the Imperial Court, but soon spread to samurai society and, by the Edo period, to the common people as well. Toku gahwah, Yoshi munie planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank sahkee in cheerful feasts.

The teasing proverb dumplings rather than flowers (花より団子 hana yori dango) hints at the real priorities for most cherry blossom viewers, meaning that people are more interested in the food and drinks accompanying a hanami party than actually viewing the flowers themselves. – Wikipedia

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