{"id":1448,"date":"2018-06-06T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history-here.com?page_id=1448"},"modified":"2018-11-30T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:05:21","slug":"a-kaya-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/stories\/a-kaya-tree","title":{"rendered":"A Kaya Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaya Tree (Japanese Nutmeg)<\/p>\n<p>Location Oga city Kitaura-Shinzan<\/p>\n<p>This famous tree more than thousands of \u00a0years old, was planted by the great buddhist master Jikaku Daishi in the garden of the Koboji temple, a well-known temple at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It is 4 meters wide around the root and 11 meters high. Its branches and thick leaves spread out 24 meters east-west, and 18 meters south-north. Its hugeness represents the long history of the Shinzan temple. It was recognized as an Akita Natural Monument in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Aisoka Yuki composed a poem:<\/p>\n<p>Inishie-no-koboji-no-ato-tomekureba (I sought for the remains of the Koboji temple,)<\/p>\n<p>Jurei-sensuhyakunen-no-taiboku-no-kaya (only to find a giant kaya tree of more than a thousand years.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oga City Department of Education<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1457\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/stories\/a-kaya-tree\/img_4218\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SX130 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1526826146&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u69a7\u306e\u6728\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?fit=685%2C514&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1457 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?resize=177%2C133&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?resize=685%2C514&amp;ssl=1 685w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?resize=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?w=1370&amp;ssl=1 1370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history-here.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4218.jpg?w=2055&amp;ssl=1 2055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/stories\/shinzan-area\">Back to Shinzan Area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaya Tree (Japanese Nutmeg) Location Oga city Kitaura-Shinzan This famous tree more than thousands of \u00a0years old, was planted by the great buddhist master Jikaku Daishi in the garden of the Koboji temple, a well-known temple at the time. It is 4 meters wide around the root and 11 meters high. Its branches and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/stories\/a-kaya-tree\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Kaya Tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":414,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9gCtR-nm","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448\/revisions\/3492"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history-here.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}