Love, Immortality and Utopia – The Symbolism of Peaches – Japonica

Peaches have been cultivated in China for about 3000 years, originally for food and medicinal purposes, and poems about the beauty of peach blossom date to 600BC, showing their early use as an ornamental. By the Song dynasty (960-1279AD), several varieties had been bred with double flowers in reds and whites as well as pinks.…

Love, Immortality and Utopia – The Symbolism of Peaches – Japonica

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Smiling in Slow Motion

Fuji Arts Japanese Prints - Tobosaku and the Peaches of

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PEACHES OF IMMORTALITY (Chinese: 仙桃; pinyin: xiāntáo; Cantonese

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Peaches of Immortality - National Museum of Asian Art