87 Simplistic Cherry Blossom Captions for Sakura – Sweet and Dreamy

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Looking for cherry blossom captions and Sakura quotes to describe the breathtaking displays of blooming cherry blossom trees?

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Every spring buds burst. Japan comes alive with a breathtaking display of pink petals scattered around. Cherry blossom or Sakura is a symbol of beauty and renewal. I can confirm it is absolutely stunning because I spent a perfect 17 days in Japan in the cherry blossom season. To see this stunning and simple natural phenomenon join a cherry blossom tour.

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Enjoy in a daytime hanami in Tokyo or join a Kyoto evening cherry blossom tour. Or wander around and see it in Lake Kawaguchiko or at Himeji Castle. You can admire cherry blossom in Washington or sign up for a cherry blossom photoshoot in Amsterdam.

Whatever you decide to do, there will be photos you will want to share on Instagram too. Here is a collection of the best cherry blossom Instagram captions to save you the trouble of thinking about one yourself and inspire your imagination.

There are cherry blossom quotes, Sakura quotes and quotes about cherry blossoms that you can copy and paste right under your Instagram photo taken under a cherry tree.

Have a look at the best cherry blossom captions for Instagram!

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1. Sakura captions for Instagram

1. Pink pretty.

2. Hello Sakura!

3. Stunning Sakura.

4. Spring Blossoms.

5. Sweet like Sakura.

6. Sakura is in the air.

7. Bloom baby, bloom.

8. Sakura is calling my name!

9. Seasons change, and so do we.

10. I’ve been waiting for you all winter.

2. Sakura quotes

11. “Everything blooms in its own time.” – Ken Petti 

12. “From heaven, it descends like, sakura petals drop.” – Issa Kobayashi

13. “Sakura, sakura they fall in the dreams of sleeping beauty.” — Yosa Buson

14. “Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.” – Yoshida Kenko

15. “If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!” – Motoori Norinaga

16. “The ornamental cherry trees’ blossoms called sakura, are as closely associated with the image of Japan held by the rest of the world as is Mount Fuji.” – Ann McClellan

17. “Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You’ll realize when you’re as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won’t last forever.” – Shannon M Mullen

18. “Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decrepitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.” – John Burnham Schwartz

19. “One of the legends suggesting why the cherry trees’ blossoms are so exquisite and ephemeral says that the fairy Ko-no-Hana-Sakuya-hime, the ‘maiden who causes trees to bloom,’ hovers low in the spring sky, awakening the sleeping trees with her delicate breath.” – Ann McClellan

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3. Cherry blossom captions

20. Dressed in pink.

21. Blossom is in the air.

22. Here comes the blossom.

23. Cherry blossoms in the air.

24. Look on the pink side of life.

25. The beautiful blossom came.

26. One with the cherry blossoms.

27. Honey bees and flowers, please.

28. Kiss me under the cherry blossoms.

29. Stopping to smell the cherry blossoms.

30. Spring is proof that change can be beautiful.

31. This year may have been hard but the flowers still bloom.

4. Cherry blossom quotes

32. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

33. “Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.” – Matsuo Basho

34. “I bloomed up all over again despite knowing, cherry blossoms are only meant to wither.” – Eayra

35. “All around us the blossoms flurry down whispering, be patient you have an ancient beauty.” – Toi Derricotte

36. “Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms you know.” – Lynn Austin

37. “The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one’s guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.” – Maxine Hong Kingston

38. “It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!” – Mehmet Murat İldan

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5. Cherry blossom tree quotes

39. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough.” – A. E. Housman

40. “From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.” – Matsuo Basho

41. “Only in dreams of spring shall I ever see again the flowering of my cherry trees.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

42. “I’d like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.” – Saigyō

43. “Yes, the cherry trees put this truth very plainly: none of the glory of blossoms and autumn leaves lasts long in this fleeting world.” – Murasaki Shikibu

44. “We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness – and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there’s no problem.” – William McDonough

45. “The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.” – Homaro Cantu

46. “A cherry tree was coming into bloom, shooting out a froth of sugar-pink blossoms. She could see from its size and the gnarled branches that it was a mature tree, yet still capable of putting on such a wonderful show. A new beginning every spring, even from an old tree.” – Maggie Alderson

47. “The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.” – Homaro Cantu

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6. Cherry blossom Instagram captions

48. Welcome blossom!

49. Cherry blossom dreamin’.

50. Let your dreams blossom.

51. Spring is here to say hello.

52. Hello again cherry blossom!

53. It’s raining pink and white petals.

54. Stop & smell the cherry blossoms.

55. You, me and a cherry blossom tree.

56. Filled with pink flowers and blue skies.

57. Can I take one of these cherry blossom trees home with me?

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7. Cherry blossoms quotes

58. “What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” – Kobayashi Issa. 

59. “Cherry blossoms on the tree; their scent of sweetness is divine.” – Linda Winchell

60. “In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.” – Kobayashi Issa

61. “Double cherry blossoms flutter in the wind, one petal after another.” – Masaoka Shiki

62. “The cherry blossoms have a spiritual meaning for the Japanese people.” – Ann McClellan

63. “Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, are gone forever, yet mindless. The spring comes again.” – Ikkyu Sojun

64. “If in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.” – Ariwara no Narihira

65. “There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you.” – Murasaki Shikibu

66. “Cherry blossoms are explored as symbols in Japanese art and artifacts, and in images of Japonism found in Western art.” – Ann McClellan

67. “I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.” – Yoshida Kenko

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8. Quotes about cherry blossoms

68. “Scatter layer by layer, eight-layered cherry blossoms.” – Masaoka Shiki

69. “Sad bright eyes are cherry blossoms your true love will never wake up.” – Communique

70. “Since ancient times, the Japanese have heralded the arrival of the cherry blossoms because they symbolize the ephemeral beauty of life.” – Victoria Abbott Riccardi

71. “White cherry blossom behold the joy of spring, As white cherry blossom blooms, For it will be over soon.” – Christopher Tye, ‘White Cherry Blossom’

72. “It is true, as they say, that the blossoms of spring are all the more precious because they bloom so briefly.” –Murasaki Shikibu 

73. “I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.” – Ruth Ozeki

74. “When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.” – Rajneesh

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9. Positive cherry blossom quotes

75. “The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.” – Matsuo Basho

76. “And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze, and so the blossoms fall, and so my days…” – Onitsura

77. “It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery 

78. “Cherry blossom, I can’t let you go, I’m not an expert but I know you’re like gold, you pop up, shine bright, then you hit the road.” – Jon Vinyl

79. “As the cherry blossoms bloom, festive picnics called hanami usher in the spring with elaborate spreads of miso salmon, mountain vegetables, colorful bento, and fresh mochi turned pink with sakura petals.” – Matt Goulding

80. “Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life’s fickleness, she thought.” – Alice Poon

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10. Cherry blossom quotes about love

81. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon

82. “I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda

83. “Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that’s why my heartbeats love them so much.” – Munia Khan

84. “Love is like cherry blossoms. You won’t find it every time, everywhere. Wait for it’s season to come and you won’t be long in despair.” – Moushami Suryavanshi

85. “On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.” – Yoshida Kenko

86. “Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.” – Erik Pevernagie

87. “Love is like cherry blossoms. They bloom at the first promise of spring. They beautify even the grayest landscape, they scatter at the first gust of wind. But as they hold, when you look at them, you steal a little view of paradise.” – Georgia Kakalopoulou

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Final thoughts on cherry blossom captions

You made it all the way to the end of this cherry blossom caption collection blog post. Which is your favorite cherry blossom caption? Are the Sakura captions at the top of your list? Maybe cherry blossom quotes? Perhaps Sakura quotes or inspirational cherry blossom quotes?

How about cherry blossom tree quotes and cherry blossom Instagram captions? Whatever it was, I hope at least one will capture your stunning photo of a cherry blossom petal. If not, pair it with spring quotes.

Thinking about how you can use those caption ideas on your Instagram?

Use short captions on Instagram stories. Combine those with quotes about cherry blossoms as a description under the photo. You can even use them as a voice-over on Reels or as a short video. And as far as Sakura quotes go … they can be used in Stories combined with an Interactive sticker or posted as a single post. Options are unlimited.

What is your favorite cherry blossom caption?

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Anja

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Cherry blossom captions for Instagram are here to perfectly describe this natural phenomenon everyone wants to see in Japan. Locals are celebrating it with hanami, and tourists by taking photos and going on cherry blossom tours. Above you can find an ultimate collection of cherry blossom quotes, dreamy sakura quotes, sakura captions and Instagram captions for cherry blossom. Pair them with photos of blossoming cherry trees in Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka.

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