The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration

A sweet little storybook about how the Nation's Capitol came to have a wonderful display of Japanese Cherry Blossom trees that line the pathways between various monuments in washington, DC.

Beautiful and informative

It was great! Everything is perfect. Thank you!

Saw this book at the airport on a recent trip to Washington D.C. I really liked the illustrations so I found it on Amazon and purchased it here as a gift for a friend.

Very informative and beautifully done. I suggest this to anyone who is interested in learning about the Cherry Blossom Festival in the U.S.A. and it's origins.

Having redecorated my office in a traditional/modern Japanese motife, with cherry blossoms and a planted cherry blossom tree outside the window, the book just adds to the office and provides a history of the cherry blossom as it pertains to Japan.Bob

Very good descriptions and excellent photographs of cherry blossoms in DC and Japan...classic book at very reasonable price...we give as gift...

My first impression was that author Ann McLellan has a great eye. She has collected an exciting, beautiful album of enchanting historic images as well as lovely new photos with a certain contemporary charm, to kindle or restore vivid memories held by generations of "once and future" visitors to Washington's Cherry Blossom Festival: the Sakura Celebration. My second impression was to be captivated by her poetic captions of the artistic array of intriguing wood cuts, paintings, photos and portraits, impossible to put down, pure fun to follow, one by one from cover to cover. The third impression is that the story behind the imagery also reveals her lively personality and conversational talents in an accessible style, not only as social history, political and diplomatic history, but also garden and landscape history and environmental art. This book's ideal user-friendly size is easy to handle and one wants to peruse again and again. Her in-depth narrative of the personalities behind the scenes of the planting of the cherry trees in Washington DC is a fascinating tale. It's a book to share and give to best friends and family with confidence, plus gratitude to the author for creating a true treasure of two cultures.