Tsubaki

It is well known that the samurai loved the sakura flowers. For them, the sakura that wither slowly, petal by petal, then floating gently in the wind, was the symbol of ephemeral, of life passing by, day by day... And the sakura flower lasts only a short time, much like the life of the samurai...

But there was also a flower hated by the samurai: the camellia, tsubaki in Japanese, was considered a very inauspicious flower. Why? Because unlike sakura, when it withers the heavy camellia falls suddenly to the ground... like a head severed by the sword...

Fortunately, even with the samurai's antipathy, people from Japan appreciated the camellia and there are many places in Japan where during springtime tsubaki enchants the passersby with its perfect flower...