Sakura (arr. Yuquijiro Yocoh)
“Sakura Sakura” (“Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms”), also known as “Sakura”, is a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms.
The “Sakura Sakura” melody uses a pentatonic scale known as the Japanese mode. This could also be construed as Phrygian Dominant Minor Mode in Western musical theory, using scale degrees 3, 4, 6, 7, 1, 3 (E, F, A, B, C, E or Me, Fa, La, Ti, Do, Me in solfege).
