Cherry Blossoms in Tamba City

 Here comes cherry blossoms season in Kansai Area. I drove to Tamba City to see and shooting photos of the view.
 There are many cherry trees along Kakogawa River in Tamba City,  I enjoyed driving on Route 175 and 483. It was really ethereal and amazing scenery.

 Very long lined cherry trees. It is a part of "Furusato Sakura-dzutsumi Kairo", which is long chain between Setouchi Inkandsea and Sea of Japan by the Hyogo Prefecture. It completed 19 years ago, and then cherry trees grow up decently. Of course, not all trees could be grow because Somei-Yoshino cherry is very weak for some kinds of diseases. If one tree caught the disease, neighbour trees might die one after another. Fortunately cherry trees are fine in the mid and northern Tamba City.

　

 This is an another spot, Kuramachino in Tamba City. These trees are clearly older than ones on bank of Kakogawa. They say those trees are about 50 years old. Old cherry trees show dynamic beauty like waves and vortices with glaceful and comlplicated branches. 

 It is at same location, Kuramachino aka "Tamba Shōnen Sizen-no-Ie". Many people had picnic under those trees. I suppose Kuramachino is the best spot for cherry blossoms in Tamba City. It is worth to visit.

Spring Ephemeral in Tamba

 I'm sorry about silence because I caught a bad cold for some weeks. I'm just fine now. It was so chilly even in April this year.
 I planed driving to Tamba City and shooting photos of spring ephemeral 3 days ago, actually I did but   katakuri flowers were regressed by snow falling. I just took some photos of flower buds and visited small temple near the katakuri garden. It was a happy accident. That small temple, Tassin-ji has huge nomber of old buddha statues made hundreds or thousand years ago. It was strange a small temple has numerous buddha statues, the legend only saggests a few circumstances. It is still mystery today. Unfortunately photo shooting is prohibited in the museum, I can report it was worth to see beautiful, unique and mysterious relic statues here.

Anyway, I visited the katakuri garden again today. It was very fine weather, so ephemeral flowers burst into bloom.
 Katakuri is a kind of fawn lilies, they are usually seen in mid and northern Japan. There are a few colonies in Kansai(Kinki) Region. Kiyozumi is one of them. Here is a link to the article of Katakuri on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythronium_japonicum

Temple Tassin-ji

 Narcissi were blooming nicely in the garden.

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