Virgin-white cherries, seen from temple in early morning 
course of time the trees attained maturity and formed 
a splendid avenue, and they are lovely in the flowering 
season every year. The place has thus become one of 
the famous flower resorts in Tokyo, and it is widely 
known on account of various flower colours such as 
Goshiki-zakura, or five-colour cherries on the Arakawa. 
Such a large variety of choice specimens of cherries, 
collected at one place, and thrown open to the free in- 
spection of the public, is to be found nowhere else. 
In this connection it is interesting to note that the 
young cherry trees presented to the United States in 
IQI2, as souvenirs from the then Mayor of Tokyo, con- 
sisted of the grown-up saplings or grafts of the trees 
of the cherry grove on the bank of the Arakawa, and 
are, so to speak, the offsprings of famous Goshiki- 
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