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Edo-Higan cherry, Kanki-ji Temple 01
Edo-Higan, 江戸彼岸, Prunus pendula form. ascendens
Kanki-ji, 歓喜寺 means "The temple of bliss".
Edo-higan is traditional Japanese cherry with beautiful name. Before many kinds of hybrid or transformed Cherries had come out in Edo period, This and P. jamazakura had been "Japanese Cherries".
"Edo" is Tokyo's old name, former Shogun's capital, and "Higan" means spring equinox, as this flowers a little earlier than most of cherries, around the spring equinox day. And as it flowers earlier, it flowers before the leaves' opening, which made this and hybrids, including most popular Someiyoshino, enabled flower without leaf. Number of flowers are very many, making the branches as clouds. Small flower with pale pink.
茨城県坂東市岩井、歓喜寺
Iwai, Bandoh, Ibaraki, Japan March 2008
Nikon D70s / Sigma 150 macro
Edo-Higan cherry, Kanki-ji Temple 01
Edo-Higan, 江戸彼岸, Prunus pendula form. ascendens
Kanki-ji, 歓喜寺 means "The temple of bliss".
Edo-higan is traditional Japanese cherry with beautiful name. Before many kinds of hybrid or transformed Cherries had come out in Edo period, This and P. jamazakura had been "Japanese Cherries".
"Edo" is Tokyo's old name, former Shogun's capital, and "Higan" means spring equinox, as this flowers a little earlier than most of cherries, around the spring equinox day. And as it flowers earlier, it flowers before the leaves' opening, which made this and hybrids, including most popular Someiyoshino, enabled flower without leaf. Number of flowers are very many, making the branches as clouds. Small flower with pale pink.
茨城県坂東市岩井、歓喜寺
Iwai, Bandoh, Ibaraki, Japan March 2008
Nikon D70s / Sigma 150 macro