Shops are flooded with cherry blossom merchandise and food, the colour pink suddenly popping up in decorative garlands and flower-shaped sweets.

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The flowers bloom in dramatic fashion, their light pink colour spreading across previously barren treetops to welcome spring.

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About 400 people joined me, in a wide range of ages, shapes and abilities (and a startling uniformity in their attraction to the colour pink).

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The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

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