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close to Arashiyama, along a road that led through the plain to the city. From the end of the seventeenth century cherries enter the written history of this area, and Ninna-ji is still famous for a plantation of classic garden forms including the green-flowered or creamflowered cherries such as
Figure 10 Partying people under the cherries of Ninna-ji Temple, where 'Asagi', 'Gyoiko', and 'Ukon' originated. From Akisato Rito * (1780).