Tokyo must be the number one cherry blossom city in the world in terms of the number of famous places and the total number.
Speaking of the cherry blossoms embodying Tokyo, I'm sure it's Sumida Park, that is, once Bokutei.
In 1717, it was established as a cherry blossom viewing spot to take a break for the citizens who were in severe situation due to financial recovery. Although it was devastated by the flood in 1846, it was replanted, and a row of 3 kilometers of cherry trees in 1883 appeared. It was again destroyed by the floods of 1907 and 1910, and the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1926, then this place was redeveloped as Sumida Park in 1937 as part of the Imperial Capital Restoration Project. During World War II, the bodies of the dead by the air raids of the US military were temporarily buried, and after the war, temporary houses occupied illegally there due to lack of housing. In 1961, when the illegal occupation was resolved, the land was raised as a countermeasure against flood damage, and cherry trees were replanted. But in 1970, the Metropolitan Expressway was built as overwhelming it.
Bokutei is a place for cherry blossoms that survived all disasters that Tokyo experienced, such as the floods, earthquakes, wars, and postwar urbanization that was more severe than the disasters. It embodies the disaster history of Tokyo and becomes the symbol of restoration that Tokyo has revived many times.
The latter half is the introduction of some cherry blossom spots that I like, and that of this year.
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reference
”隅田公園”(川本昭雄, 東京都公園協会, 1981)
”東京のさくら名所今昔” (相崎芳郎, 東京都公園協会, 1981)
”東京都の歴史散歩 上巻 下町 ”(東京都歴史教育研究会編, 山川出版社, 2005)
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