Ka-Chou-Fu-Getu in Japanese means Flower-Bird-Wind-Moon in English if directly translated, but this really historically means that Japanese is impressed by Four seasons when we feel each season coming with these articles, and when we compose Haiku with 5-7-5 words or Tanka with 5-7-5-7-7 words to express our own impression while spending daily life. Particularly during Winter season, if you are living with snow cumulating longer than 2 meter, you feel very tired of cloudy sky and mentally down like in Scandinavian countries. Even if not in snow-covered city, you just see the Brown-colored landscape everyday, but when it is getting warmer , day by day with 3 days cold, and then next 4 days getting warm, gradually landscape is turning to change with light green-colored sprout on the ground or on the branch. Finally Peach flower or Cherry flower is to be in bloom. And we really feel Spring has come with little snow left.
Under the Cherry blossom, people enjoy eating foods, drinking sake, or singing songs, dancing with friends or family members to celebrate Spring has come back this year again, and then people recall old memory that they shared and enjoyed with the late people together. Flower is , in Japan, regarded as our own Life, very short .