KAKU-NO-DATE’S 150 WEEPING CHERRY TREES are descended from three saplings packed from Kyoto to this far northern city in a bride's dowry around 1680. The cherry blossom strands falling over the black panel fences (kuro-itabei) of the samurai houses give the city its distinctive beauty. ► Kaku-no-date’s black panel fences are painted with shibu-sumi-nuri, a mixture of persimmon juice and pine ash that sheds water and prevents wood rot and insect infestation. Persimmon juice, which contains tannic acid, was also used to waterproof Japan’s traditional oil-paper umbrellas. (photograph © K. Shimizu)
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