Ninna-ji Temple
Kyoto Ninna-ji Temple It is a wallpaper photograph of a cherry tree.
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Ninna-ji in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi is the spot of a cherry tree
famous for the Omuro cherry tree. Since Emperor Uda ran the cloister government in here Ninna-ji first
in Japan, the Omuro cherry tree of Ninna-ji is called the Omuro place, and it is called the Omuro cherry
tree with the original cherry tree which blooms in the Omuro place.
Full bloom merely blooms about ten days late from about one week rather than Somei Yoshino with the
ordinary Omuro cherry tree. The color of the feature is also white and the pink of Somei Yoshino is a
cherry tree which the neat touch different again carries out. It is considered as beginning that the
Omuro cherry tree was planted in Ninna-ji at the Heian period. The Omuro cherry tree is a cherry tree
of the cultivation kind called Ariake, and is a Sato cherry tree of the Oshima cherry tree system.
The feature is a with a height [ 2-3m ] shrubbery, and it is the feature to lengthen a branch several
times over from near a root, and to make a large bud and a large white flower bloom. Although it is said
that that it is a shrubbery is the influence which is called that a root is not much deeply inelastic and
Tonoko which is easy to dry on base rock geology and which fine-grained mud became surface soil and has
covered very much since the soil of Ninna-ji is base rock geology,In order to maintain balance so that
it may not break down from a shallow root, either, it is thought that the branch was lengthened from the
root with the shrubbery and the center of gravity is lowered.
It seems that moreover, it hooks with the feature that this back is low and that a flower (nose) is low,
and is also called the moonfaced-woman cherry tree. In addition, the Omuro cherry tree of Ninna-ji is
specified as the natural treasure in Taisho 13. It is said that there are about ten kinds of about about
200 shares of kinds planted now besides Ariake, and the present thing was planted in 1696. The Ninna-ji
inner gate is entered and the planting place of the Omuro cherry tree is located in the place of a left
hand and temple-dedicated-to-the-Kannon this side.
Moreover, and it finishes dyeing the precincts of a temple to in at the time of full bloom.
[ the cherry tree of Ninna-ji ] [ besides the Omuro cherry tree ] [ Somei Yoshino ] Therefore,
when Somei Yoshino finishes Ninna-ji of the time of a cherry tree, it is also the feature that the
Omuro cherry tree can enjoy the period cherry tree which is in full bloom and in which the season of a
spring cherry tree is very long. The Omuro cherry tree will be best time to see around from the April
middle of the month of delay from it on one week - the 10th, applying the best time to see of the
cherry tree of Ninna-ji the beginning of April - the beginning of the month.
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Ninna-ji |
History |
The origin of a name |
Omuro cherry tree |
Omuro cherry tree Bloom time |
A five-storied pagoda and a cherry tree |
The cherry tree and Rhododendron dilatatum of the precincts of a temple |
The main hall of a Buddhist temple and a cherry tree |
National treasure The main hall of a Buddhist temple, a cherry tree, and Rhododendron dilatatum |
The weeping cherry tree of the precincts of a temple |
The main hall of a Buddhist temple is seen for a cherry tree to the front. |
A bell tower and a cherry tree |
World's cultural heritage Ninna-ji |
Temple dedicated to the Kannon |
Admission fee |
The two-Deva-kings gate seen over the cherry tree (Sanmon) |