Castle Ruin

One sunny April morning

Visited the ruin of a castle Somei Yoshino
The most loved flower

In Japan

The stone walls and the moat

Still remain

And flowered
With
Hundreds of cherry trees
In full bloom

The castle was abandoned in 1871
Nowadays, the land is used for prefectural government's buildings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukui_Castle http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.0650929&lon=136.2215906&z=18&l=7&m=h&v=2 photographed April/8/2009 Fukui, Fukui, Japan