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Benten-zakura

Fukushima · · Nature & Scenery

Japanese name: 弁天ザクラ

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WHAT TO DOBenten-zakura

A cherry with a stone shrine at its foot. The story goes that parents planted it for a daughter who drowned herself.

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A cherry with a stone shrine at its foot. The story goes that parents planted it for a daughter who drowned herself.

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A weeping cherry in Takine, Tamura, Fukushima, one of the three great weeping cherries of Takine. A stone shrine is enshrined at its base. There is a tradition that the parents planted it in memory of a daughter who, not allowed to return from her husband's home to her birth home, threw herself into a pond.

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