INOUE, Seigetsu (1822?-1887) is a legendary bleaching haiku-poet in Japan.

 

 Traditionally, so many Japanese poets and literary writers have treated the cherry blossom as the metaphor of ephermetal lives of ours. They bloom at the threshold of 

 spring as if being given brand-new birth, the petals start to fall so fast and it remind us the brevity and transience of life.

 

 Watching on cherry blossoms, sometimes it remind us that every organic matter is living each own irreplaceble life in this passing time, and it evokes the mercifulness for all the life. In Japanese culture, we call such feeling as 'もののあわれmonono-aware'. It is familiar motif for Japanese literature from very early time.