María Alba
The Temple of the Yellow Plums
Since I visited Kamakura in winter, there were no flowers or fruit on the trees, but hey, this was another small temple in the innermost part of the huge Engakuji complex. Tokimune Hōjō's wife, the nun Kakusan-ni, and known by us as the founder of the Shokozan-Tokeiji Temple, the Temple of divorce, has a pagoda dedicated to her husband, so that later the Ashikagas built the present building in the same place for Muso Kokushi. It was popular in the Muromachi era (1338-1573). The gardens surrounding the temple could be considered as a small botanical garden because of the large amount of different trees and plants.
The most attractive and abundant in Japan are the trees of the genus Prunus sp. that belong to the Rosaceae family, including the cherry and plum trees.
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