The Denver Cherry Blossom Festival festivities celebrate and honor Japanese tradition through authentic experiences. The free community event includes traditional art, delicious cuisine, and ...

Tickled Pink: Japanese Friendship Garden's Cherry Blossom Festival is Returning Crafts, interactive activities and face painting can entertain kids while adults can indulge at the beer and sake garden ...

Fujima Kansei, a Japanese traditional group from Little Tokyo, perform an Odori dance during Monterey Park’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Barnes Park in April 2011. (File photo by Sarah ...

Other programs are: “Art & Me Preservation Family Workshop: Celebrating Cherry Blossoms” March 27 at 10 a.m.; “Look & Listen: Nature in Japanese Art and Music, Kurahashi Yodo II, shakuhachi ...

As a symbol of friendship, Japan gave cherry trees to Washington, D.C., where they encircle the Tidal Basin. Not far away are the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums, the Freer Gallery of Art and the ...

And with the advent of photography, the tradition continued. Here are a few early, hand-tinted photographs of sakura — or "cherry blossom" in Japanese — around Japan, circa 1890.

For Mieko Nordin, president of Willamette Valley Dressings, Cherry Blossom Day is a reminder of the importance of her culture. Nordin, a Japanese native, moved to Oregon thirty years ago and ...

The fourth annual Davis Cherry Blossom Festival, April 6 and 7, will be a regional music festival and celebration of Japanese culture. Presented by Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan and Sudwerk Brewing Co., the … ...

An artist who does Japanese ink painting will demonstrate her art at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

The second annual Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates Japanese art, music and culture from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at Pioneer Pavilion, 2007 Cherry St. Events start with a 9:30 a.m ...