Figure 22. — The Jefferson Memorial at cherry blossom time around the 

 mid-1940's. 



Figure 23. — Japanese stone lantern: Left, Tatsuko Iguchi, daughter of 

 Japan's Ambassador to the United States, lights candle — Friendship's 

 Flame — during opening of 1954 Cherry Blossom Festival; right, 

 inscription on the lantern "A pair of stone lanterns dedicated in 

 memory of Daiyuin (Iemitsu Tokugawa: Third Shogun (1604-51)), 

 placed in front of mausoleum at Toeizan (Kan'eiji Temple) in Bushu 

 (now Ueno Park in Tokyo) on this 20th day of the 11th month of the 

 4th year of Keian (that is, January 1, 1952) by Shigenobu Matsuura, 

 Lord of Hirado, in Hizen Province. (Translated from Japanese by the 

 Library of Congress. Photograph of Japanese stone lantern from the 

 Washington Star.) 



Figure 24. — Cherry trees planted in 1965 by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, 

 wife of President Johnson, and Mrs. Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of Ambas- 

 sador Takeuchi. 



Figure 25. — Cherry trees, as they appear in 1976, planted in 1912 by Mrs. 

 William Taft (left foreground) and Viscountess Chinda (right fore- 

 ground). 



