Ginkgo in Hananokizei, Japan (photo A. Kato)

Hananoki chichi (photo A.Kato)
chichi poem (photo A.Kato)






Ginkgo biloba tree in Hananoki-Izeki,
close to the river Onga  in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
This tree has chichi, is 1000 years old, male, girth 17.6 m, h. 28.4 m.
A haiku (poem) is written on granite stone close to this Ginkgo. 

haiku meaning

Through the hanging CHICHI
of the giant Ginkgo tree
early morning sun shines
 German:
Den riesen Ginkgo
Herabhängende CHICHI
Morgensonnenschein

 

photos/haiku courtesy Atsuko & Kunihiko Kato




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