Senior Maiko wear beautiful large cherry blossom pins in this month.

The cherry blossom is the most common kanzashi for April.

The Cherry Blossom is the national flower of Japan, and April sees the cherry blossom season with many events revolving around this popular flower!

Another Popular motif are butterflies, these are in anticipation of an early summer..

Although these lovely mizubiki butterflies are normally silver, occasionally a younger maiko might wear them in bright gold.

An adorable motif often mixed in with the cherry blossom kanzashi is bonbori, the charming paper lanterns that are hung during cherry blossom season.

Senior maiko often also wear a weeping cherry blossom kanzashi.

This one has beautiful falls like the junior Maikos pins, but instead of the long double petal shidare, they often have shorter falls always with full cherry blossoms strung all the way down.

This elaborate pin is worn with a beautiful subtle flower comb to match