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[[File:Mito-somei.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Mito Tokugawa graves at Somei Cemetery]]
*''Japanese'': 染井霊園 ''(Somei reien)''
Somei Cemetery, located in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and established in the [[Meiji period]], is the smallest of the metropolitan (i.e. prefectural) public cemeteries.
It is home to the Somei variety of the Yoshino [[cherry tree]], and the graves of many significant historical figures, including a number of members of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]]; sculptor [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]] and his son, poet and sculptor [[Takamura Kotaro|Takamura Kôtarô]]; medical scholar [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]] and his son, anthropologist & archaeologist [[Tsuboi Shogoro|Shôgorô]]; and the art historian & curator [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]].
The graveyard of Jigen-ji temple is immediately adjacent to Somei Cemetery, and contains the graves of [[Shiba Kokan|Shiba Kôkan]], [[Saito Kakki|Saitô Kakki]], [[Akutagawa Ryunosuke|Akutagawa Ryûnosuke]], and [[Kobayashi Heihachiro|Kobayashi Heihachirô]].
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
*''Japanese'': 染井霊園 ''(Somei reien)''
Somei Cemetery, located in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and established in the [[Meiji period]], is the smallest of the metropolitan (i.e. prefectural) public cemeteries.
It is home to the Somei variety of the Yoshino [[cherry tree]], and the graves of many significant historical figures, including a number of members of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]]; sculptor [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]] and his son, poet and sculptor [[Takamura Kotaro|Takamura Kôtarô]]; medical scholar [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]] and his son, anthropologist & archaeologist [[Tsuboi Shogoro|Shôgorô]]; and the art historian & curator [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]].
The graveyard of Jigen-ji temple is immediately adjacent to Somei Cemetery, and contains the graves of [[Shiba Kokan|Shiba Kôkan]], [[Saito Kakki|Saitô Kakki]], [[Akutagawa Ryunosuke|Akutagawa Ryûnosuke]], and [[Kobayashi Heihachiro|Kobayashi Heihachirô]].
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]