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Another beautiful cherry blossom tree is the Weeping Cherry, which spills its branches toward the ground (a bit like a weeping willow), and this also blooms in the spring.
Its weeping ito-zakura (thread cherry blossom) tree comes into flower a week earlier than in usual years. The name of the tree comes from its thread-thin drooping branches.
This large weeping cherry stands on a low, fenced-in rise behind the shrine. This beauty is actually the second such tree on the site, the first having withered in 1947 after some 200 years in ...