As a matter of fact, in 1912, Japan gave about 6000 young trees of cherry blossoms to US. The half of them were sent to DC, and the other were to NY. The cherry blossoms in DC have been much more famous, because they were planted and taken care of by the First Ladies and national authorities. But the fact seems to be almost forgotten that in NY, too, many trees of cherry blossoms were planted along the Hudson River at the same time, which include the trees in "Sakura Park" and "Riverside Park" and so on.
@@antihypocrisy8978 Oh right. President Roosevelt of the United States, The neutral country, suspended oil exports to Japan in July and forced Japan to start a war. It was beginning in December, with attack to "Impregnable great fortress of the Pacific". I know that America teaches that "Japan suddenly went crazy". Thank you Yankee for forcing us to start a war and burning so many civilians to death.
In NY the planting ceremony was held in front of the General US Grant National Memorial, which was still under construction, a month after the ceremony in DC. Why General Grant? He had visited Japan on his world tour after retiring the US President, in 1879, stayed two months, welcomed by thousands of people and given his useful advices to the Japanese political leaders, including the Emperor Meiji. They thanked him heartily for his kindness and never failed to show their respect for him. It is easy to imagine they would have wanted him to enjoy the Japanese Cherry Blossoms as a token of their gratitude.
Did you know that Dogwoods were gifted in return from the US to Tokyo, Japan? They are called Hanamizuki in Japanese and now the most popular trees that line the streets in Tokyo!
I love seeing the cherry blossoms around here every year. They're part of D.C. and the DMV area's culture. Every time I see sakura blossoms in anime or another Japanese work, I think about the ones in my DC-area suburban neighborhood (they're not just in the tidal basin--there are many beautiful trees all around the area).
Hanami is still one of the most beautiful things in Japan. Go to Yoyogi park in Sakura season, people are all outside in big parks eating,drinking, and partying from morning to midnight.
@@Official-OpenAI my bucket list is to visit Japan during next cherry blossom season. From the south to the north by train, should I start the first week of Apr 2024?
@@___beyondhorizon4664 This year, the cherry blossoms were in full-bloom by the end of March (20~30) in the South, for Tokyo it was the 22nd, and usually the beginning of April for the Northern side. I say you won't have a problem if you visit around that time.
this is not unique to Japan, as the tradition originates on the mainland, specifically with China, where the Cherry and plum blossoms are immortalized in poetry and paintings and parks over thousands of years. The trees that ended up surviving in the US were in fact found on short notice by looting them from Korea. The ones you see are Korean trees, stolen by Japanese imperialist colonizers, the same brutal fascist regime that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.
I realize producers are only given a few minutes for these segments, but it seems like a shame to leave out that the relationship started with these trees didn't end with the original 3,000. Both countries have helped the other multiple times by sending cuttings to restore damaged groves.
Some of the cherry trees came back to Tokyo from DC and planted along side the river in Tokyo. Now they became beautiful cherry blossom river side, too.
There's nothing quite as ethereally beautiful as spring blossom. In Japan the sakura are so revered that they even use the bark to create pink dye for fabric. It's done in the old tradition ways. What makes it so special is that you can only extract the pink colour from the tree for the 2-3 weeks when they are in flower. Magic.
the Season of Cherry Blossom 🌸 is the Time of Dreams , " the fall of the Cherry Blossom petal 🌸, is as the fall of the tear of the Dreamcatcher ". catch the petal , catch the tear , catch the Dream and make a wish ✨
Growing up in DC suburbs, would see Sakura most springs! The end of winter! 🌸🌸🌸 When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and we entered WW II, there were calls to chop down the Cherry Trees around the Tidal Basin; fortunately, they were spared.
In the half of the US people, I want to say thank you, Japan, and by the way, I'm not from the US, not from Japan, either . I just feel like saying thank you since not a single US person says so.😅✌️
I like how they always come up with analogies like "It was her personality." Even though it might just as well have been some personal like or dislike towards something to continue towards change.
Today is April 6. Anyone knows if can see the DC cherry blossoms, or the flowers have fallen off the trees. I didn’t know so short lived! The DC cherry blossom festival runs thru 4/16. Sound like won’t see anything😢
It depends if it rains a lot or is very windy. If it is, the cherry blossom petals get torn off the branches faster. There's parks where I live that have lots of cherry blossoms and I've seen them last a full month on some years when the weather was sunny for a long time.
I was a tree trimmer in Washington State. When I was told that the cherry trees at Diablo, Washington was planted by mr. Ross who built the three dams along the Skagit, that supply electrical power to Seattle. That some starts were taken from the Japanese cherry trees in Washington DC, and transplanted to Diablo. Now the trunks of those trees are 3 or 4 ft across. IBEW Local 77.
My cherry trees weren't happy this year due to the weather bouncing between spring and winter 3 times. It ruined most of the flower buds so my trees only had flowers for 3 days
The young plant of the cherry tree of the homecoming is given Japan from Washington, is tree planting with three five in total in two and United States monument Land in the person of Sidmore front of the grave in the Yokohama foreigner graveyard. The existence only as for two of one front of the grave and one in American monument Land in total. The thing which I grafted a shoot onto from this "Cherry tree of the homecoming" came to be called later.
Asia in general these trees are a spectacle to see. Japan has been iconic for the country behind these trees but again China , Korea also have them and have beautiful sceneries with these trees. It’s nice to see that here in thw u.s there’s parts where we can enjoy them as well……
Just came from Japan last week. There are so many people in the parks, I can hardly enjoy my time there. Maybe sakura season isn't the best time to visit.
My German friends are visiting here in Japan now. (Apr.11) They wanted to see Sakura after they saw blooming season once. But this year Sakura bloomed much earlier as you know, they missed the season :( (I understand it's very crowded tho)
Interestingly, I enjoy the crowdedness as well as Sakura. It’s like a festival so we expect a lot of people to come out to see the flowers. But this year, after Covid, every single person came out and enjoyed themselves so maybe it was too crowded. Too bad that you couldn’t enjoy Sakura as much as I usually do. I live in the US and just came back to Japan and it is the first time in ten years that I come back in Sakura season so I’m fully enjoying each cherry blossom tree I see even though I missed the peak season.
We also have our own cherry blossom, called Balayong the ( palawan cherry blossom ), its also beautiful and is native to our country and it is now sprouting in BGC, also the authorities should plant it along edsa as well so edsa will look beatiful as well😁😁
@@simjjmeme3186 the so-called palawan cherry is not a native tree. Also, the true balayong tree is the native tree called "tindalo". We have true great native flowering trees which bloom at this time like the salimbobog (Crateva religiosa) and salinggogon (Cratoxylum formosum). You can search what they look like.
@@thwb4661 We do have the native trees for the reds and red-oranges: dapdap (Erythrina variegata) and rarang (E. subumbrans). Also malabulak (Bombax ceiba) which blooms jan. to mar.
Japan is an amazing country, so unique and an advanced society. I have the chance to live in Montreal the only city in Canada with the largest urban park with cherry blossom trees around the city . The botanical garden in Montreal is the most important botanical gardens in the world by virtue of the extent of its collections and facilities, such as its 22,000 plant species and cultivars, ten large exhibition greenhouses, thirty thematic gardens and vast Arboretum;
These trees were looted from Korea, a mainland country Japan was cruelly and brutally occupying at that time. They asserted themselves as superior and tried to erase Korean culture and identity. The tradition of cultivating cherry and plum blossoms comes from the mainland, and originates in China, where the displays are on a scale far more grand and spectacular than you can ever dream, and where the technology is decades ahead of anything Japan has today, as Japan has stagnated to a large degree since the 1997 Asia crisis.
I looked it up on Japanese websites and I don't get your point I didn't see anything strange or contradictory. Are you saying that every story must have two sides?
As a matter of fact, in 1912, Japan gave about 6000 young trees of cherry blossoms to US.
The half of them were sent to DC, and the other were to NY.
The cherry blossoms in DC have been much more famous, because they were planted and taken care of by the First Ladies and national authorities.
But the fact seems to be almost forgotten that in NY, too, many trees of cherry blossoms were planted along the Hudson River at the same time, which include the trees in "Sakura Park" and "Riverside Park" and so on.
And in 1941, Japan gave 6000 bombs to Hawaii. How kind.
@@antihypocrisy8978 Oh right. President Roosevelt of the United States, The neutral country, suspended oil exports to Japan in July and forced Japan to start a war. It was beginning in December, with attack to "Impregnable great fortress of the Pacific". I know that America teaches that "Japan suddenly went crazy". Thank you Yankee for forcing us to start a war and burning so many civilians to death.
@@antihypocrisy8978Japan: ☺️どういたしまして
In NY the planting ceremony was held in front of the General US Grant National Memorial, which was still under construction, a month after the ceremony in DC. Why General Grant?
He had visited Japan on his world tour after retiring the US President, in 1879, stayed two months, welcomed by thousands of people and given his useful advices to the Japanese political leaders, including the Emperor Meiji.
They thanked him heartily for his kindness and never failed to show their respect for him.
It is easy to imagine they would have wanted him to enjoy the Japanese Cherry Blossoms as a token of their gratitude.
@@antihypocrisy8978 Then, in 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Did you know that Dogwoods were gifted in return from the US to Tokyo, Japan? They are called Hanamizuki in Japanese and now the most popular trees that line the streets in Tokyo!
Lolz I often see it around the streets here even if its just sub-urban. Don't know much about History of Trees in Japan but thats a fun fact.
@@w1z4rd9 Oooh thats why its called Dogwood Diplomacy...
This is so wholesome
Yeah but dogwood is no where near the same level of beauty to cherry blossom tree but at least they gave something in return
Battan death march?
As a Japanese, I hope people enjoy this beauty every spring now and in future.
This is a symbol of good relationship between US and Japan.
Before WW2 and y'all bombed pearl harbor
@@masterchief4150 y’all sanctioned Japan
@@masterchief4150 and yall put Japanese Americans in internment camps.
@@masterchief4150 what a cute comment❤
It would have been nicer, if Japanese hadn't killed many US soldiers.
The Sakuras are beautiful! Thank you , Japan!
I love seeing the cherry blossoms around here every year. They're part of D.C. and the DMV area's culture. Every time I see sakura blossoms in anime or another Japanese work, I think about the ones in my DC-area suburban neighborhood (they're not just in the tidal basin--there are many beautiful trees all around the area).
シドモアさんが日本の桜と花見を愛してくれたから、地球半周違う日本とアメリカで一緒に桜を見て春の訪れを共に喜べるのね。
シドモアさん、日本の桜を愛してくれてありがとう。
Thank you for the efforts of the great American women.
努力をして下さったアメリカの女性に感謝
Hanami is still one of the most beautiful things in Japan. Go to Yoyogi park in Sakura season, people are all outside in big parks eating,drinking, and partying from morning to midnight.
When is the best months to visit
@@___beyondhorizon4664 It really depends on what you want to do, but I would suggest right now or the next couple months
@@Official-OpenAI my bucket list is to visit Japan during next cherry blossom season. From the south to the north by train, should I start the first week of Apr 2024?
@@___beyondhorizon4664 This year, the cherry blossoms were in full-bloom by the end of March (20~30) in the South, for Tokyo it was the 22nd, and usually the beginning of April for the Northern side. I say you won't have a problem if you visit around that time.
this is not unique to Japan, as the tradition originates on the mainland, specifically with China, where the Cherry and plum blossoms are immortalized in poetry and paintings and parks over thousands of years. The trees that ended up surviving in the US were in fact found on short notice by looting them from Korea. The ones you see are Korean trees, stolen by Japanese imperialist colonizers, the same brutal fascist regime that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.
Thank you Eliza Skidmore ❤
I believe it's 'Scidmore'.
Saw the Cherry blossom on April 2 & at Haines Point! It's my 3rd DC cherry blossom tradition 😊 my favorite time of the year.😊
Japan 🗾 is beautiful ❤️ great people,,,safe and much more .
Greetings from Brooklyn NY 😎
I realize producers are only given a few minutes for these segments, but it seems like a shame to leave out that the relationship started with these trees didn't end with the original 3,000. Both countries have helped the other multiple times by sending cuttings to restore damaged groves.
Some of the cherry trees came back to Tokyo from DC and planted along side the river in Tokyo. Now they became beautiful cherry blossom river side, too.
日本の桜🌸がDCに在るのは何故かずっと疑問に思ってました。歴史を説明いただきありがとうございます。🙏
実際はちょっと違うんですよね「ワシントン桜物語 アメリカと日本の友情を深める花」でググると出てきます。
Love the story I also love cherry blossoms. Humanity should take care of this wonderful world.
Thank you, Japan! 🇯🇵
These trees are not just in DC. They're also in Philadelphia in Fairmount Park.
DC has most of them. Seattle also has them as well.
Some in California too :)
There's nothing quite as ethereally beautiful as spring blossom. In Japan the sakura are so revered that they even use the bark to create pink dye for fabric. It's done in the old tradition ways. What makes it so special is that you can only extract the pink colour from the tree for the 2-3 weeks when they are in flower. Magic.
Great story!
History makes life interesting!
As a Japanese living in the United States, I'm so proud of this.
But your country pretend to a victim of the war
@@baikeiast5255 Were talking about the cherry blossoms. Your argument has nothing to do with the topic. Use your common sense.
@@Czech801 those trees are useless they're originate from china btw japan just claimed as their own
@@baikeiast5255 🤡
@@Klops_ID If he has a common sense LOL oh well.....
Nice to hear the positive side of international relations every once in a while. The trees really are beautiful. They seem at home there, too.
A great break from the negativities... 🥰
the Season of Cherry Blossom 🌸 is the Time of Dreams ,
" the fall of the Cherry Blossom petal 🌸,
is as the fall of the tear of the Dreamcatcher ".
catch the petal , catch the tear , catch the Dream and make a wish ✨
きれいにさいているね。
アメリカのひとたちが、サクラをたのしんでくれてうれしい。
A sakura, the symbol of life and vitality!
That's the irony, that it's in the mu*der capital of the US. (Washington Post "2023, the district's deadliest year in more than two decades.") Sad
Growing up in DC suburbs, would see Sakura most springs! The end of winter! 🌸🌸🌸 When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and we entered WW II, there were calls to chop down the Cherry Trees around the Tidal Basin; fortunately, they were spared.
🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸
I live in California and we have a lot of Cherry blossom trees and it looks unreal in person
There is a Chinese quote "前人栽树，后人乘凉" meaning
"Predecessors planted the trees, and the descendants enjoying the shade"
Well hopefully we'll stop cutting them down!
It's a vedio about the USA and Japan, why Chinese show their quote ？？？？？
You're such a positive and beautiful soul. God will not give up on us, Amen.
It was wonderful watching you videos.
Former foes to best friends, the flowers are now a symbol of how strong Japan and the United States' relationship is.
They just gifted more to us, Japan are great allies. Nice gesture from japan
I didn’t know the history, so this was definitely educational. Thanks!
Amazing Beutiful
Gonna be planting a cherry blossom tree in my front yard soon, thank you Japan!
They call it a cherry blossom blizzard, but the scenery of falling cherry blossoms is too beautiful.
In the half of the US people, I want to say thank you, Japan, and by the way, I'm not from the US, not from Japan, either . I just feel like saying thank you since not a single US person says so.😅✌️
Wow!# Thank you for info!#
Might go look at the ones here at the University of Washington today.
Sakura depart, earthbound in a floating dance, a wistful longing.
for 24 yrs she didnt stop. The grit tho is amazing
I like how they always come up with analogies like "It was her personality." Even though it might just as well have been some personal like or dislike towards something to continue towards change.
And orginally from japan ❤
Japan is the place to go to see cherry tree bloom it’s beautiful
Today is April 6. Anyone knows if can see the DC cherry blossoms, or the flowers have fallen off the trees. I didn’t know so short lived! The DC cherry blossom festival runs thru 4/16. Sound like won’t see anything😢
It depends if it rains a lot or is very windy. If it is, the cherry blossom petals get torn off the branches faster.
There's parks where I live that have lots of cherry blossoms and I've seen them last a full month on some years when the weather was sunny for a long time.
We have cherry blossoms in Bloomfield NJ. We used to see them in spring. Cherry Blossom Park Bloomfield NJ
I love to see sakura tree's in japan.
Here in Bangor, North Wales there are cherry blossom trees that were gifted by Japan to Wales, there's a board there detailing it.
🇯🇵 ❤ 🇺🇸
I was a tree trimmer in Washington State. When I was told that the cherry trees at Diablo, Washington was planted by mr. Ross who built the three dams along the Skagit, that supply electrical power to Seattle. That some starts were taken from the Japanese cherry trees in Washington DC, and transplanted to Diablo. Now the trunks of those trees are 3 or 4 ft across. IBEW Local 77.
Bunga sakura yang indah
Finding an innocent plaque commemorating the friendship between Japan the US was one of my highlights when walking around DC
thanks for sharing :)
"...stroll among them (the trees) for fellowship, humanity, and joy..." yeah right, IN D.C.?!
Japan gave cherry blossoms.
France gave Statue of Liberty.
Canada gave Justin Bieber.
Usa gave guns.
Very Interesting!
Hanami.. Fellowship and humanity, and actually drunkenness. Glad American people can enjoy Sakura too!
I don't know about Sakura, but i definately enjoy Nihonshu during these times. Well... During any time really.
What a beautiful spirit for fellowship and humanity!
My cherry trees weren't happy this year due to the weather bouncing between spring and winter 3 times. It ruined most of the flower buds so my trees only had flowers for 3 days
yea this year was kinda lame cus of the weather. But so is DMV weather in general
The young plant of the cherry tree of the homecoming is given Japan from Washington, is tree planting with three five in total in two and United States monument Land in the person of Sidmore front of the grave in the Yokohama foreigner graveyard. The existence only as for two of one front of the grave and one in American monument Land in total. The thing which I grafted a shoot onto from this "Cherry tree of the homecoming" came to be called later.
Asia in general these trees are a spectacle to see. Japan has been iconic for the country behind these trees but again China , Korea also have them and have beautiful sceneries with these trees. It’s nice to see that here in thw u.s there’s parts where we can enjoy them as well……
They originate on the mainland. The trees you see here were looted from Korea, to replace them on short notice.
Make Washington DC Japan Again!
Never take no for an answer!
Just came from Japan last week. There are so many people in the parks, I can hardly enjoy my time there. Maybe sakura season isn't the best time to visit.
My German friends are visiting here in Japan now. (Apr.11) They wanted to see Sakura after they saw blooming season once. But this year Sakura bloomed much earlier as you know, they missed the season :( (I understand it's very crowded tho)
Interestingly, I enjoy the crowdedness as well as Sakura. It’s like a festival so we expect a lot of people to come out to see the flowers. But this year, after Covid, every single person came out and enjoyed themselves so maybe it was too crowded. Too bad that you couldn’t enjoy Sakura as much as I usually do. I live in the US and just came back to Japan and it is the first time in ten years that I come back in Sakura season so I’m fully enjoying each cherry blossom tree I see even though I missed the peak season.
They should give Eliza Scidmore a statue there or at least a Marker stone for her story and recognition..
Nunya Brought em
Hanami (花見) just means flower viewing. It's sad that the US-Japan relationship eventually deteriorated to war.
Replacing history is going on. Cherry trees were a gifts.
it looks nice so what's the problem
Hey guess what japan is universally loved
I wished thats true... we dont get much love. You know because of the past. Well I hope it gets better in the future.
we need cherry blossoms in Manila
We also have our own cherry blossom, called Balayong the ( palawan cherry blossom ), its also beautiful and is native to our country and it is now sprouting in BGC, also the authorities should plant it along edsa as well so edsa will look beatiful as well😁😁
Not possible because of weather. Native flowering trees can be an alternative.
@@simjjmeme3186 the so-called palawan cherry is not a native tree. Also, the true balayong tree is the native tree called "tindalo".
We have true great native flowering trees which bloom at this time like the salimbobog (Crateva religiosa) and salinggogon (Cratoxylum formosum). You can search what they look like.
We do have Fire Trees though, and a stand out for its bright red flowers that bloom every summer.
@@thwb4661 We do have the native trees for the reds and red-oranges: dapdap (Erythrina variegata) and rarang (E. subumbrans). Also malabulak (Bombax ceiba) which blooms jan. to mar.
God bless 🇺🇲🌼🌸💮🇺🇲🛐✝️🕊🕊🕊💞😊🎎🐇🦅💪🏼🔜🔚😇🇮🇱👑
hey bro, don't forget enjoying under the cherry blossams forever and ever !!!!
🇯🇵🇺🇸
Whose idea was it to ignore gangs based on color in DC?
If there is a biopic about ELIZA SCIDMORE, I would love to see it!
70 years later... 😲😲😲
I’m Washington not dc. It’s funny because we also have cherry blossoms everywhere especially at the Washington’s campus.
Such a poor effort NBC, with this only available in low quality HD.
I didnt know washington dc had cherry blossoms!
Eliza Skidmore sounds like a historical Leslie Knope ☺️
🌸🌸💖🌸🌸
Hi hello cherry blossome
So anyone who never been to jaapan make sure go there April. You will se a lot of them all over japan
🇯🇵🇺🇸🥰
Japan is an amazing country, so unique and an advanced society.
I have the chance to live in Montreal the only city in Canada with the largest urban park with cherry blossom trees around the city . The botanical garden in Montreal is the most important botanical gardens in the world by virtue of the extent of its collections and facilities, such as its 22,000 plant species and cultivars, ten large exhibition greenhouses, thirty thematic gardens and vast Arboretum;
These trees were looted from Korea, a mainland country Japan was cruelly and brutally occupying at that time. They asserted themselves as superior and tried to erase Korean culture and identity. The tradition of cultivating cherry and plum blossoms comes from the mainland, and originates in China, where the displays are on a scale far more grand and spectacular than you can ever dream, and where the technology is decades ahead of anything Japan has today, as Japan has stagnated to a large degree since the 1997 Asia crisis.
200 years later:
America: Cherry blossoms originated in US and gifted young trees to JAPAN in 19th century..
all over the world?
Keep in mind, President Ulysses S Grant planted a pine tree in Zojoji Temple in Tokyo.
😊
Thank God melania didn't know they existed when she was in the white house. Could've turned it into God knows what.
Isn't it bad for the ecosystem as these plants are not native to WashingtonDC
A genius to attract tourist
i think you should ask Japanese side of story....might be little different from your side of story....
I looked it up on Japanese websites and I don't get your point I didn't see anything strange or contradictory. Are you saying that every story must have two sides?
Japan sent flowers USA sent fat boy
I wonder what happened to those trees during WW2, when Japan and America were at each other's throats? Were they in danger?
come to india i will show you blooming cherry blossoms in bangalore draws people from around the country.
Why do we need to know this because today needs that sweet sweet promotion money.
There was nothing else to steal.
👌🇺🇸
...wasn't Johnny Appleseed...?
It's like japan and the united states merged together