The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Wa
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore was an early proponent of planting Japanese flowering cherry trees along the Potomac River.
Scidmore admired cherry blossoms in Mukojima, Sumida, Tokyo. Picture published in 1897.
The first gift of 2000 cherry trees was burned by the giftee after a few insects and nematodes were discovered
Yukio Ozaki
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Yukio Ozaki was a Japanese politician of liberal signature, born in modern-day Sagamihara, Kanagawa. Ozaki served in the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet for 63 years. He is still revered
National Cherry Blossom Festival
…全米桜祭り, Zenbei Sakura Matsuri) is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also…
Yukio Ozaki
Yukio Ozaki (right) and Mochizuki Keisuke (left)