🌸MARUYAMA'S WEEPING BEAUTY🤗
Maruyama-kōen's (円山公園) famous 70-year old shidare-zakura (枝垂桜 'weeping cherry') is one of the city's most recognizable trees. It's a short walk from our Camellia Flower Teahouse.
The original tree was 200 years old when it withered in 1947.
From day...
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...to night🌝
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Covering 86641m2, Maruyama-kōen (円山公園) is the oldest and most popular of Kyōto’s parks.
Officially opened in 1886, from 1912 Ogawa Jihei (小川治兵衛 d.1933) landscaped the park into a pond and stroll garden (池泉回遊式庭園) over 3 years.
In 1949 the 15th head of Uetō Zōen landscapers (植藤造園), Sano Tōemon (佐野藤右衛門), planted the 2nd generation tree...the cherry tree we see today.
Sadly, in recent years the tree’s vigor has seriously declined.
que sera sera...
my love is Gion
where when I sleep
below my pillow
water flows
かにかくに
祇園はこひし
寝るときも
枕の下を
水のながるる
-Yoshii Isamu (吉井勇 1886-1960).
Trans. Ad Blankestijn.
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