Shidarezakura (weeping cherry) of Bukeyashiki-dori

In the Meiwa era (around 1770) , Soshu Masuto, a renowned scholar of Japanese classical studies from Akita, visited another scholar in Kakunodate. He described the cherries as follows--"The cherries with thousands and hundreds of strands, a hundred cubits long, come down with mists and clouds; it is as if thousands of snow flakes dancing like cotton in the wind, or vast waterfalls inverting and flickering into the sky." This describes the shidarezakura in the house of Sadaemon Furu-umetsu, located west of the entrance of Higashikatsurakucho.