There is nothing that lifts the spirit more than the sight of the sun shining through cherry blossom on a warm spring day. This spring ‘pick-me-up’ is a universal feeling, celebrated all over the world, most famously in Japan, when every year the Japan Meteorological Company release its predictions for peak bloom season, usually falling around the end of March and the beginning of April, when the nation comes together in a centuries old tradition to view the blossom and picnic beneath its boughs.
