section of Kyoto City. The place is noted for its 
beauty as well as for the glory of the cherry flowers. 
The woodland abounds in Yama-zakura, or mountain 
cherries, which were transplanted from other places in 
ancient times. The flowering season here begins after 
April to. Many old trees have died in recent years, 
and re-afforestation has recently been started on a large 
scale with a view to making Arashiyama an excellent 
beauty spot for mountain cherries. 
6 Omuro 
The cherries in the compounds of the Ninna-ji 
Temple, an ancient Buddhist temple in Kyoto, have 
been famed since very olden times as a collection of 
fine Sato-zakura, or domestic cherries. They are beauti- 
ful varieties of this species, bearing lovely flowers. 
Unlike common trees of the kind the cherries in the 
garden of the temple resemble rhododendrons in form, 
with many slender branches or stems shooting forth 
from the lower part of the trunk néar the roots, and 
on each branch and twig the flowers bloom in clusters 
in spring. The trees find no parallel among the cher- 
ries of this kind elsewhere. The flowering season is 
about the 20th of April. 
7 Tsutsuji-ga-oka 
Tsutsuji-ga-oka is in Sendai City. The cherry 
grove consists of aged trees planted in the Genroku 
era (1688—1703) by order of Tsunamura Date, Lord 
of Sendai fief, an assemblage of Higan-zakura, or equi- 
nox cherries and weeping cherries. The trees are 
planted on both sides of the former riding-ground /or 
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