The wealth of this period gave rise to a great flowering of art, writing, and science.
Hanging scrolls, fan paintings, albums, and poem cards that demonstrate the flowering of the art of writing during Japan's Momoyama and Edo periods, when the civilization was ruled by powerful shoguns, the arts flourished, and the interest in calligraphy was revitalized.
The persistence of the mines — "Danger is sunk in the pastures … / Ingenuity's covered with flowers!" — is Wilbur's way of writing about the persistence of the war itself, with all its psychic casualties: "it's going to be long before / Their war's gone for good," he soberly predicts.
A decade ago this week British theatre was enjoying its greatest flowering of new writing since the Jacobeans.
The literary historian Malcolm Cowley described the years between the two world wars as a "second flowering" of American writing.
It became the principal vehicle of "the second flowering" of Welsh writing in English (the first having been in the 1930s).
Rome maintained a level of intellectual life owing largely to its links with the Greek culture of the East; it experienced a flowering of new writing in the 9th century around international figures such as Anastasius the Librarian (died c. 878), who had contacts with both Constantinople and the courts of the Frankish kings.
The Boston Symphony went on to commission his orchestral piece "Drala" (1986); "Red Garuda" (1999), also featuring Mr. Serkin; and "Songs of Love and Sorrow" for baritone (2010), part of a flowering of vocal writing in the last decade of his life.
I had the good fortune to come of age as a teacher during the first flowering of the writing process movement.
In the play Sukeroku yukari no Edo zakura (Sukeroku: Flower of Edo) written by Tsuuchi Jihei II in 1713, the two styles are blended most successfully.
