The affair, photographed by Grace Winter for Asya Photography, featured an aesthetic that was heavily influenced by Dee’s Chinese heritage ... and dozens of cherry-blossom branches from Dee ...

Of the soldiers fighting and dying against the Chinese or the Russians,” Ulak says. The war fought from 1904 to 1905 between Russia and Japan directly led to D.C.'s cherry blossom festival and ...

All of this adds up to the annual cherry blossom bloom around Seattle ... where there are plenty of Chinese double cherry, some Kwanzan flowering cherry, and Yoshino cherry blossoms, or Condon ...