Flowering Plants: Japan (001)

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Title Flowering Plants: Japan (001)
Photo Number Box 40, Japan, Yoshino, 2
Description Photograph of orchids for sale, Yoshino, Japan
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1978
Subject Stores, Retail--Japan--Yoshino--Photographs; Orchids--Japan--Yoshino--Photographs; Japan; Plants; Orchids
Keywords Shops
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Spatial Coverage Yoshino-chō (Nara-ken, Japan)
Caption on Slide Yoshino, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Yoshino (Yoshino-chō) is a town located in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is the starting point for a pilgrimage trail up Mount Yoshino to a shrine. Mount Yoshino is famous for its many thousands of sakura (cherry) trees. These flowering specimen trees were planted in four groves at different altitudes, in part so that the famed trees would come into bloom at different times of the spring.--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: Wild orchids (ran) for sale, Plant is #1 lesson of "4 Gentlemen" Yoshino, Japan.
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6cg06f2
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 334618
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg06f2
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