It is colder than the last year, resulting in later blooming of cherry blossoms. The season of full-blooming for ‘Someiyoshino’ has already been reported to be 4/6, 1 week later than the last year.

Today cherry blossoms are still blooming.

‘Boke’ cherry blossom with Camellia japonica, which is not “Camellia sinensis”.

Cherry blossom in a rainy day. I felt “Sabi” elegance!

In Shizuoka prefecture, we can enjoy seeing cherry blossoms around tea plantation.

Cherry blossom with the background of tea plantation and Mt. Fuji.

Now I miss the landscape in Shizuoka because of my fixed-term transfer to Tokyo.

Even in Tokyo, I can enjoy cherry blossoms reflecting to the surface of green tea.

Though nobody knows the result of 1st flush of Japanese tea in the present time, considering the superstition that enough dormancy contributes higher quality of teas, I hope colder climate in this year will make teas much better!