They boasted scarcely a flower between them, the only splashes of colour coming from painted features or lighting.

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Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

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Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.

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Shops are flooded with cherry blossom merchandise and food, the colour pink suddenly popping up in decorative garlands and flower-shaped sweets.

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