Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are being ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around the…
To be fair to the other guy, most Americans are probably more familiar w/ DC’s trees than Washington’s. DC is a common school trip location for much of the East Coast and the cherry blossoms are right across from the Jefferson Memorial.
And famously has a lot of cherry trees that were gifts from Japan. And a bunch of shrines. And memorials. And Japanese sister cities, sister counties, and the whole state is a sister of Hyogo prefecture. Look, what I’m staying is Washington State and Japan are hella close so when you hear about “Washington” and “gifts from Japan” you think “State” waaaaaaaaay before D.C.
I think this might be an East v. West debate. On the East Coast I thought the exact opposite. This is the first time I’m hearing about WA & Japan’s connection. But hey, I’m glad I learned something today.
The Seattle Japanese Garden, completed in 1960, is located in the Madison Park neighborhood. During their October, 1960 stop in Seattle, the Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko visited the newly opened garden. Together, they planted a cherry tree and a white birch, the latter a symbol (o-shirushi) of the Princess’s family.
I’m also in Colorado and it makes way more sense for it to be Washington state than dc. Washington is about 2000 miles closer to Japan than D.C. is.
To be fair to the other guy, most Americans are probably more familiar w/ DC’s trees than Washington’s. DC is a common school trip location for much of the East Coast and the cherry blossoms are right across from the Jefferson Memorial.
And famously has a lot of cherry trees that were gifts from Japan. And a bunch of shrines. And memorials. And Japanese sister cities, sister counties, and the whole state is a sister of Hyogo prefecture. Look, what I’m staying is Washington State and Japan are hella close so when you hear about “Washington” and “gifts from Japan” you think “State” waaaaaaaaay before D.C.
I think this might be an East v. West debate. On the East Coast I thought the exact opposite. This is the first time I’m hearing about WA & Japan’s connection. But hey, I’m glad I learned something today.
That is so cool! I had no idea! Per wiki :