On the top of the bank a cryptomeriathrew a dark shadow, and a plum-tree near it was a mass of snowy white bloom.
In front of a temple I daily pass, a great cryptomeria was shattered across the road, its main shaft broken into three pieces, so that the whole tree shut down like a concertina.
In these newly won provinces Yoritomo placed military governors and nominated to these posts Doi Sanehira and Kajiwara Kagetoki, heroes, respectively, of the cryptomeria forest and the hollow tree.
He is said to have carried with him quantities of tree seeds which he planted in the Eight Island Country, the cryptomeria and the camphor being intended to serve as "floating riches," namely ships.
The remnants of the Minamoto sought shelter in a cryptomeria grove, where Yoritomo proved himself a powerful bowman.
Such a change has been described by Parlatore in Abies Brunoniana, and examples may frequently be met with in the larch (Larix europæa), and specially in Cryptomeria japonica.
A lengthening of the axis of the female strobiles of Coniferæ is not of infrequent occurrence in Cryptomeria japonica, Larie europæa, &c.
Beyond, colossal flights of stone stairs stretch mysteriously away among cryptomeria groves, above which tower the Nikkosan mountains.
There were groves of cryptomeria on small hills crowned by Shinto shrines, approached by grand flights of stone stairs.
The graveyard, which surrounds the temple, was extremely beautiful, and the cryptomeria specially fine.
A lofty stone wall, surmounted by a balustrade, surrounds the simple but stately enclosure, and cryptomeria of large size growing up the back of the hill create perpetual twilight round it.
We left early this morning in drizzling rain, and went straight up hill under the cryptomeria for eight miles.
Great snow-slashed mountains looked over the foothills, on whose steep sides the dark blue green of pine and cryptomeria was lighted up by the spring tints of deciduous trees.
The spring tints have not yet darkened into the monotone of summer, rose azaleas still light the hillsides, and masses of cryptomeria give depth and shadow.
These two divine palaces, or temples, called Geku and Naiku, are about three miles apart, and stand in the midst of groves of aged cryptomeria trees.
Within this large enclosure are others of similar structure, all made of the wood of cryptomeria trees, and left unpainted and without ornamentation.
Soon we had entered the long avenue of cryptomeria and kept on through shadow and sunlight, with our runners at their fullest gait, for we had to be in time for the afternoon train at Utsunomiya, and it is twenty-two miles from Nikko.
On each of these masses of earth and masonry grow great cryptomeria trees, each of their trunks almost filling, from side to side, the entire width of the surface.
Retinospora ericoides, which alters its summer tone of dark green to purple brown on the approach of cold weather; or by Cryptomeria elegans, a little less hardy, which changes to a fine shade of bronzy crimson.
Hardly less noteworthy than these shrines and temples is the great avenue of giant cryptomeria trees, which stretches across the country for twenty miles, from Nikko to Utsunomiya.
Another cryptomeria avenue intersects this and runs for twenty-five miles across the country.
General Grant Was Given a Permit to Cross This Bridge, but Sensibly Refused to Use It] [Illustration: PLATE V Avenue ofCryptomeria to Futaaru Temple, Nikko.
On his return to the railroad the tourist would do well to take a jinrikisha ride of five miles down through the great avenue of old cryptomeria trees to the little station of Imaichi.
Weird thro' the mist and cryptomeria Dies the bell--'tis dumb.
They had lined up among the trunks of the cryptomeria trees, among the little grey tombs with their fading inscriptions and the moss-covered statues of kindly Buddhas.
On our return journey to Tokio in the afternoon we took jinrikishas to Imaicho, the station beyond Nikko, so as to drive five miles through the magnificent cryptomeria grove that runs parallel with the railway.
We wander up the stone-paved avenue, through the solemn illness of the great cryptomeria avenue, towards the Buddhist Temple at the end.
The journey to Niko by rail is most diversified, shaded for miles by the Cryptomeria trees.
Situated at the foot of a range of mountains are beautiful groves, through which wind broad avenues, shaded by the cryptomeria trees.
The silent twilight ofcryptomeria groves is conducive to holy meditation, but is also vastly convenient for mundane dallying.
When we rap with fan on the paper screen beyond, some one cries "Enter," and sliding it aside we find ourselves in a large low room, whose ceiling of unpolished cryptomeria is supported by pillars of cherry.
They stood in the cryptomeria shadows of Reinanzaka Hill, from which he had stepped to her side as she came from the Embassy gate.
A leafy hill of cryptomeria rose near-by, and an octagonal stone tower peeped above its foliage.
Here and there century-old cryptomeriastood like gray-green bronze pillars, towering over younger forests as straight and symmetrical as Noah's-ark trees.
The inclosure was set with giant cryptomeria centuries old, and was crowded with people.
All along flaunting camphor-trees andcryptomeria peered above the skirting walls and the scent of wistaria was as heavy as that of new-mown hay.
Five minutes later Barbara heard the throb of the great mechanism speeding down the shadowy cryptomeria road.
Loew and Honda (1904) grew Cryptomeria japonica in beds, treating the soil with various manures and with iron or manganese sulphate.
Fastened up beside the lantern is a bunch of green stuff, cryptomeria in many cases.
At last the cryptomeria grew large enough for his purpose and he rebuilt the temple, expending on the work not only his trees but 600 yen which he had by this time saved.
The subject for competition in the year in which the landowner had been successful was, "The cryptomeria in a temple court.
It cannot be easy for those who have never seen cryptomeria or the redwoods of California to realise the impression made by dark giant trees that have stood before some shrine for generations.
Cryptomeria japonica, or in Japanese, sugi, allied to the sequoia, yew and cypress.
The cryptomeriaat one of the shrines I visited were of great age.
When fourteen years of age he obtained seeds of cryptomeria and planted them in a spot in the hills.
His poem was as follows: In transplanting The young cryptomeria trees Within the sacred fence There is a symbol Of the beginning of the reign.
In the cryptomeria forests there was a variety which, when cut, sprouts from the ground and makes a new growth like an elm.
A small tract of cryptomeria on the lower slopes of a hill belonged to the school.
I cut down the cryptomeria at my homestead and planted in their stead mulberries and persimmons.
But to my taste the plum-blossom looks better on a cloudy day against a dull background of cryptomeria when you sit by a warm fire and gaze on it out of window.
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