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dogwood is in full bloom.
While refraining from cherry-blossom viewing, Yoshino cherry tree fell and the fresh green became dazzling, but now dogwood is in full bloom. It is not as flashy as cherry blossoms, so it may be suitable for quiet walks avoiding 3 denses.
You can see it in parks in various places, but in Chuo-ku, all the street trees on the road from Hakozaki Minatobashi-dori to Yaesu-dori via the Reigishibashi intersection are all dogwood, and I call it dogwood-dori without permission (^^^).
The image at the beginning was taken on dogwood Street on the 19th when the weather was fine. If you are looking at it on a smartphone, please try to expand it in a pinch out. At the bottom of the image, you can see that there is also a bee that seems to be in trouble with too much pollen (^^).
If shown on the map, it will be the red line on the right.
It is quite long, so a considerable number of dogwood are planted (not counting).
Flower of dogwood
There are two types of dogwood, white and light red, both can be seen on dogwood Street. It may be awakening to give a strange explanation even though it is blooming beautifully, but the beautifully colored part is not a flower (petal), but is equivalent to a wrapping paper that protects the buds called a total bract. is. (There are quite a few other patterns that say, "The part that looks like a flower is not actually a flower.")
The flower part in the true sense is in the center. It's hard to understand, but there are also small petals. dogwood trees are generally tall, so they often look up from below, and it may be quite difficult to look into the whole bracts. 。 。
Proof of Japan-U.S. Friendship
There is a warm episode between cherry blossoms and dogwood.
About 100 years ago, it is famous that many cherry trees donated by Japan to the United States bloom near the Potomac River in Washington, but dogwood was donated in return.
Gimini Cricket (2015, 2016) and Ginzo (2016) were also introduced in the previous blog, but here I will introduce it based on the article "Reference Cooperative Database (operated by the Diet Library)".
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It seems that the beginning was in 1904 when Dr. Fairchild, a foreign member of the Japan Cherry Blossom Society, held a cherry blossom viewing tea ceremony. Among the people who participated in the tea ceremony, there was Eliza Sidmore, an enthusiastic pro-Japanese family and a traveler.
It's Sidmore that Hanes (2019, etc.) featured several times in detail on the correspondent blog.
In 1909, Mrs. Taft, who had been planning to build a park on the Potomac River in Washington, said, "Would you like to plant cherry blossoms in Japan?"
In response, Consul General Kokichi Mizuno, Consul General in New York, plans to plant Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington State on June 2, 2016 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jutarou Komura as a "donation of cherry trees to Washington (Washington)", so the donation project started.
However, unfortunately, the 2,000 cherry trees donated in the fall of that year were found in quarantine and incinerated.
After that, they cultivated carefully at the Agricultural Experiment Station, saying, "This time," and in 1912, we were able to safely donate 3,000 cherry blossom seedlings without pests. At that time, the mayor of Tokyo was Yukio Ozaki.
In 1915, Dr. Swingle, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, came to Tokyo as a U.S. government messenger. The purpose was to report on the growth of cherry blossoms in Washington and express our gratitude.
At this time, he brought dogwood, a national and national flower tree from North America, in return, donated it to Tokyo, and planted trees at Hibiya Park.
The first Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington was held on April 16, 1927 (1927), and the cherry blossom festival is still being held in the season.
100th anniversary stamp donated by dogwood
Cherry blossoms from Japan in 1912 and dogwood from the United States in 1915. In 2015, the 100th anniversary of Japan and the United States, a commemorative stamp was issued to commemorate the friendship.
It is a very stylish design that is printed with "friendship" in Japanese on the one published in the United States.
Be careful when going out
It looks like dogwood Street on the nineteenth. This place itself is not 3 dense, but it is not recommended to go all the way by using 3 dense means such as trains and buses.
What do you do? It is best for people living in the neighborhood to visit quietly for a walk, but if you are nearby, the recommendation may be "bicycle". Between cars? Because of this, you can automatically create a "sparse" space, and above all, it is better to have a "single-person ride" in principle.
And as I wrote at the beginning, you can see dogwood in many places besides dogwood Street. The following is from Hashizume Park in the southeast of Edobashi. The building in the background is the Mitsubishi Warehouse Building, which also includes the Mitsubishi Warehouse and Edobashi History Exhibition Gallery (Machikado Exhibition Hall, Chuo-ku).
