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Cherry flowers on the River Uji (Photo: aq Obamor) 
the Todaiji Temple in Nara in the 6th year of Kenkyu 
(1195 A.D.), in the reign of Emperor Gotoba, when 
the Yae-zakura (double flowered cherries) in the garden 
of the Kofuku Temple, also in Nara, were-in full 
bloom. 
Subsequent to the establishment of the Imperial 
Palace in Kyoto, in 794 A.D. and in the reign of 
Emperor Kammu, there came to be built in Kyoto many 
stately mansions and homes of distinguished courtiers 
and nobles, who laid out gardens and planted in them 
choice specimens of cherry trees. 
Then, in the reign of Emperor Kameyama, many 
cherry trees were brought from Yoshinoyama in the 
Province of Yamato by order of the Emperor, and 
these were transplanted on Arashiyama in the neigh- 
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