And just as the ume were reaching their peak, the camellias (椿, tsubaki) came to their own end—whole blossoms falling from the branches, as the Japanese say, like the severed heads of samurai.
And just as the ume were reaching their peak, the camellias (椿, tsubaki) came to their own end—whole blossoms falling from the branches, as the Japanese say, like the severed heads of samurai.
