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TOPIC: Japanese Mythological Giant Trees
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/e2d25f2328fa5b48?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 18 2008 8:29 pm
From: "Edward Frank"


ENTS,

The Kunugi Tree, a kind of Oak, is said to have stood on the island of
Tsukushi in Japan. Its shadow at dawn and sunset is said to have cast a
shadow for hundeds of miles. Hundreds of thousands of people could walk on
it when it fell. One of its stems was like a long hill range.

The Kurita Tree was a Chestnut in the province of Omi, also in Japan.
Its branches spread so far that the nuts fell scores of miles away, one nut
forms a mound in Ise. The trees shadow covered many districts. People to
the northwest, in Wakasa, said their rice crop failed because of the shadow
and petitioned the Emperor to cut it down. Supposedly he did so.

The Katsura Tree is naturalized in Japan but suspected of being Chinese in
origin. It was a kind of laurel said to live on the moon and be visible in
its dark spots. In those olden times other cultures too had stories of
trees that filled the entire universe.

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/julian/myth.htm

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 18 2008 8:41 pm
From: James Parton


Ed,

Somehow this reminds me of the Trees of the Valar ( The Two Trees of
Valinor ) Laurelin & Telperion. However they cast light, not shadow.
Tolkiens book " The Silmarillion " gives a good account of them.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Two_Trees


James Parton