Can one compare Sakura
to Akihabara?
Akihabara is also known as Electric Town. Since post-WWII days, it has been the place to
get electronics. Decades ago, it was transistor
radios. Today, it is every electronic thing
imaginable, from sophisticated iPhones, to miles of speaker wire.
Akihabara seems the opposite of a walking path lined by
sakura. Garish to 10 stories; hawkers
on loud speakers competing with loud music.
Yet, if one of the lessons of sakura is, “life is short,” so, too, is the message from electric town as one thinks of eight-track tapes,
floppy disks, VCR’s, video disks, fax machines and Wang computers.
Some constants also appear.
The cherry tree blooms year after year.
People keep inventing both useful stuff and crap, selling each with vigor.
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