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Camellia Tea Ceremony on Nostr: In spring the temple's beautiful shidarezakura erupt in an explosion of pinks. The ...

In spring the temple's beautiful shidarezakura erupt in an explosion of pinks. The famed poet Saigyō (西行法師 1118-90), who loved cherry blossoms and wrote countless poems about them, is said to have visited the temple numerous times to illicitly meet Empress Taikenmon'in.