He recently worked on Sakura Note for the Nintendo DS and is currently working on another DS project for Level 5 and Brownie Brown called Fantasy Life.

There is a statue of the general by Gutzon Borglum in Sakura Park in Manhattan.

Sakura Wars is set in a fictional Taishō period.

A crotch rope ( also known as Matanawa or Sakura in Japanese bondage ) is a bondage technique which involves the tying of rope around a woman's waist which is then passed between the labia to apply painful or pleasurable pressure to the female genitals.

Another variation found in Japan is the Sakura ( cherry blossom ) Frappuccino.

Each spring at BBG, when the trees are in bloom, a month-long cherry blossom viewing festival called Hanami is held, culminating in a weekend celebration called Sakura Matsuri.

There is at least one popular folk song, originally meant for the shakuhachi ( bamboo flute ), titled " Sakura ", and several pop songs.

Sakura nattō is nattō with horse meat.

Sakura Bank merged with The Sumitomo Bank in 2001 and is now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

This store is also found in other Clamp creations such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Legal Drug, xxxHolic, Kobato., and Chobits, but is also Tomoyo's company in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

* In volume 9 of Cardcaptor Sakura, Kero is reading an Angelic Layer book, which appears to be one for a computer game.

* Hikaru is introduced in Chapter 144 of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle as an " automata ", a chess piece which Eagle ( a crossover character from Magic Knight Rayearth ) uses in a one-on-one battle with Sakura and Syaoran.

* Eriol Academy is a Cardcaptor Sakura crossover, Eriol being the name of Clow Reed's reincarnation.

The theme song for the film, " Para Para Sakura ", is not related to any form of Para Para based music.

" She has worked with many different producers, but in her third album, Sakura no Ame, Itsuka, she is noted for working on every song ( either composing the melody or lyrics ) on the album.

In Hawaii, there is Hawaiian-style Koi-koi which is called Sakura, Higobana, and sometimes Hanafura.

An annual Sakura Matsuri ( cherry blossom festival ) is a major event in Cowra's tourism calendar and is held in the gardens during September.

Sakura at the Cowra Japanese Garden is celebrated annually when the cherry blossoms are at their peak.

In the anime and manga, Sakura is a kunoichi affiliated with the village of Konohagakure, and part of Team 7, which consists of herself, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and their sensei, Kakashi Hatake.

Although Sakura is the most recurring female character in Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto did not originally intend for Sakura to be the heroine of the series.

Other notable Xeno Komi events that foreshadowed Episode II or referenced other Xenosaga side stories included a nightmare Ziggy had of Sharon and Joaquin Rozas after KOS-MOS knocked him unconscious and MOMO briefly meeting Jr. and Sakura in her subconscious domain.

Despite these elements, Kishimoto is fond of Sakura, as he feels that many of her personality traits are common among all people, thus giving her a sense of real humanity.

When designing Sakura, Kishimoto focused on her silhouette and created a costume as simple as possible.

Similar to his inexperience with drawing heroines, Kishimoto lacked the experience needed to make Sakura " cute " when he first began drawing her.

Although he implies that her appearance has become cuter since then, Kishimoto and much of the Naruto manga staff agree that Sakura was " far from cute " at the start of the series.

When designing Sakura in her Part II appearance, Kishimoto decided to change her clothes to a more lively karate suit style.

Numerous pieces of merchandise based on Sakura have been released, including a plush doll, key chains of her Part I and Part II appearances, and various character patches.

Sparrow commented that every anime and manga benefited from a strong female presence that Sakura provided for the Naruto series, although characterizing her as " stereotypically girly.

She is best known for her role of Sailor Mercury of the Sailor Moon fame and also Cerberus from Cardcaptor Sakura.

She also appeared in a number of Musical Kayou Shows as her Sakura Taisen character Sumire ; she retired from the annual performances after getting married but came back for the 2005 show, the final show in 2006, and the 2007 Budoukan show.

The film follows two threads, one centered around the Japanese chief strategist Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ( Toshirō Mifune ), and the other around fictional characters, Captain Matt Garth ( Charlton Heston ), an American naval officer who is involved in various phases of the US planning and execution of the battle and Garth's son ( also a pilot involved in the battle ) is romantically involved with Haruko Sakura ( Christina Kokubo ), an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, who has been interned with her parents.

The two became friends after Sakura helped treat Shirō's wounds after his fights with her brother, who's family she was adopted into.

For the sake of her sister Sakura Matō who has feelings for him, she uses an heirloom filled with concentrated magic to restore his damaged heart and leaves before he awakens.

It is mostly set in the offices of a private police company and focuses on the life of Natsuki Sasahara, a young catgirl, and her co-workers: Foxgirl Sakura Bokuseiinmonzeninari, werewolf Batanen Fujioka and his cousin Tomy Fujioka ( spelled Tommy in the anime ).

Sakura joins the Police Company after seeing Natuski in action, in hopes of consuming her, in order to gain her full ninth tail.

Later, when he realizes that Sakura is not Kasumi, he falls in love with her.

Still, he loves her very much and sets out on an epic journey in search of a cure, when Sakura is affected by magic weapons in later issues.

She especially goes out of her way to irritate and humiliate the easily provoked Sakura.

The “ main ” character ( her metaname is Sakura ) and her companion ( his metaname is Unyū ) may talk to the user.

Today, Japanese companies such as Pentel and Sakura Color Products Corporation manufacture pens with brushes resembling those of a small ink brush as tips.

He transfers from Musashinomori School to Sakura Josui Junior High School for better hopes to make the soccer team, since he never got a game at his old school due to his small stature.

* Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2 – Kero ( small form ), Sonomi Daidouji