2017-04-05

Sakura Blossoms Tokyo


Visitors enjoying rowing boats in a moat in Chidorigafuchi Park, which was originally part of the Edo Castle complex between 1457 to 1867 during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which is now part of the emperor’s imperial palace in Tokyo.
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Cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi Park, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.
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Cherry blossoms in Chidorigafuchi Park along one of the moats surrounding the Imperial Palace grounds in central Tokyo.
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Spring blossoms in Chidorigafuchi Park lining one of the moats surrounding the Imperial Palace grounds in central Tokyo.
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Spring blossoms in Koishikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園), a garden that was built by the son of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, starting in 1629 making it one of the oldest traditional Japanese landscape gardens in Tokyo.
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Turtle near small bridge crossing over pond in Koishikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園), Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.
ISO 100 at ƒ/5.6 for 1/250 sec.
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Decorative stone lantern at the Koishikawa Korakuen garden in central Tokyo
ISO 100 at ƒ/9 for 1/125 sec.
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A black pine with gnarled branches. Such sculpted garden trees (庭木 niwaki) are manipulated, thinned, coaxed, and held up by poles or hemp  ropes to enhance a tree’s pose in a traditional landscape garden (and protect niwaki from heavy snowfall and typhoons). 
ISO 100 at ƒ/7.1 for 1/160 sec.
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A small stone pillar with the words “Shirube-no-oka” carved into it indicating a special landmark. This stone is one of about 32 that still remain from the 17th century.
ISO 100 at ƒ/4.5 for 1/250 sec.
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Somei Yoshino variety of white cherry tree blossoms at Chidorigafuchi Park, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.
ISO 100 at ƒ/7.1 for 1/250 sec.
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