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| The stump of the ancient fallen ginkgo which has produced leaves in recent years |
The ginkgo tree that had stood next to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's stone stairway approximately from the Shinto shrine's foundation in 1063, and which appears in almost every old depiction of the shrine, was completely uprooted and irreparably damaged in March, 2010. According to an expert who analyzed the tree, the fall was likely due to rot.
Later, both the stump of the severed tree and a replanted section of the trunk sprouted leaves. The shrine is in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The tree was nicknamed kakure-ichō (hiding ginkgo), deriving from an Edo period urban legend which told of a suspected assassin hiding behind it before striking his victim. Source: Wikipedia
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