The king of the traditional horse games is Ulak-Tartysh, in which two teams of up to ten players attempt to score goals using the carcass of a decapitated goat.
In Japanese art and poetry, cherry blossoms have also served as metaphors for "the ephemerality of life", said James Ulak, the senior curator of Japanese art at Washington's Freer and Sackler art galleries, in an interview with NPR.