Waimea Celebrated Annual Cherry Blossom Festival
14 February 2012 – Thousands of people from around the Big Island, nation and the world packed Waimea to enjoy the cherry blossoms in Church Row Park and mark the first bloom following winter dates to eighth-century Japan when aristocrats would enjoy the blossoms while writing poetry.
The Big Island celebrated its annual Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival to commemorate the blooming of the area’s historic cherry trees with a Japanese tradition called hanami, which translates as “cherry blossom viewing party.”
The 19th Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival was held last Saturday February 4, 2012 at various sites of Waimea. The festival tied in with the 100th anniversary of the cherry tree planting along the Potomac in Washington. A ceremony was held at Church Row Park to plant a tree as well as the tradition of viewing them, famously known as hanami.
Festivities included multi-cultural performing arts, such as taiko drumming; hands-on demonstrations, such as a Japanese tea ceremony; exhibits, such as a display featuring the stitched artwork of Mauna Kea Quilters Guild; and displays and demonstrations which featured more than 100 crafters and a variety of food selections. Chefs representing the Hawaiian island’s Waikoloa area restaurants conducted cooking demonstrations and served up samples at Kamuela Hongwanji Mission in Waimea.
Participants enjoyed a whole day series of Japanese and multi-cultural performing arts, plus hands-on demonstrations of bonsai, origami, traditional tea ceremony hosted by Parker Ranch’s historic homes, fun mochi pounding and a host of colorful craft fairs. A new event called Festival of Quilts featured the handiwork of all six local quilt clubs. Hawaii buses were donated to shuttle people between locations.
For more than a decade, the people of the Hawaiian island have revered the Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival in honor of the 100th anniversary of Japan giving thousands of ornamental Japanese cherry trees to the U.S. to encourage goodwill and friendship.
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