There are actually two kinds of calendars used in Japan.
Apart from the solar calendar that beings in January and ends in December, 
the other calendar starts from April and lasts until March of the following year. 
Schools, government offices and many companies adopt this cycle that starts from the signal of the cherry blossom bloom, 
and ends in the spring. 
Because of this, the flowers of the trees often symbolize the ends and the beginnings;
parting of friends and moving from a familiar place to the unknown… 
A beautiful, somehow painful time flows there…