cherry-clad

Updated: May 2, 2025

The places visited were the cherry-clad hills of Yoshino and the venerable monastery of Koya, and some idea of the scale of the fete may be gathered from the fact that to a shrine on Koya-san, dedicated to the memory of his mother, Hideyoshi presented a sum equivalent to £14,000 or $68,000.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era