Flowers for a moment

Flowers for a moment

KYOTO, Japan - Visitors view fallen Japanese stuartia at the Torin-in temple garden at Kyoto's Myoshinji Temple, on June 15, 2010, the first day of a 15-day flower-viewing event. The flower is used as a symbol of transience described in ''The Tale of the Heike,'' because it blossoms and falls from the tree in one day.

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