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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 254

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ged coast-line and the widestretch of sea beyond. But surely there is no morebeautiful setting for the trees than the old templebuildings, with their wooden structures toned bycountless ages. A great weeping cherry-tree willstand as a sentinel at the gateway, or a little treeladen with rosy… … CHERRY BLOSSOM 131 wander through the buildings to the woods beyond.From the terrace they gaze down upon the groveof cherry and maple trees in the valley below, andthen away over the grey roofs of Kyoto and theplain beyond, to Osaka, hidden in the morningmists, or to Arashiyama, whose groves will…

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