Unlike the native cherry trees with their red, drooping flowers, the Japanese Yoshino cherry boasts snow-white, erect blossoms, whose petals fall to the ground like snow come wind and rain, symbolically coinciding with the poignant, sacred "Yamato spirit" of the Japanese soldiers as they sacrificed themselves on the battlefield for their country.
不同於本土山櫻豔紅、低垂的花朵，日本的吉野櫻花朵雪白、挺立向上，但遭風雨後，花瓣即如雪般灑落，與軍人在戰場上為國捐軀的淒美、神聖的「大和精神」不謀而合。